Reflections on blogs and blogging

After the recent battle of the blogs I have decided that it’s time to update the links to other blogs. First for those of you used to a daily dose of Simon Moores out goes Thanet Life and in goes Zentelligence at http://www.zentelligence.blogspot.com/ I also notice that Simon is now writing for the newspaper Your Thanet if you wish to read his views on local issues.

Next for those of you wishing to read Eastcliff Ricard will now find him at The Isle of Thanet Gazunder http://thegazunder.blogspot.com/ albeit a little bruised and not quite yet his old self. One is reminded here of the Nac Mac Feegles fear of lawyers.

Then the new kid on the blog is Bertie Biggles of Thanet Strife http://thanetstrife.blogspot.com/ which started as a parody of Thanet Life, but is now attracting some serious readers and comments.

I am also adding a link to Thanet Blog List recent feeds http://www.thanetbloglist.co.uk/?page_id=58 that is where you can keep up to date with all the new postings on the local blogs.

I realised during the events of the last few weeks that one should always think carefully before publishing a persons real name on the internet if what one is saying is in any sense controversial. Real people have real reputations and careers that can be damaged and the internet has a long memory (because of caches) so that if one subsequently wishes to retract what one has said it is not just a matter of deleting it.

Anonymity on the internet just doesn’t exist, so that anything one writes anonymously can be tracked back to the person who paid for the computer one is using to be connected to the internet.

A final thought about anonymity, if one posts anonymously without a blogger identity but just puts ones name to the post one could in fact be anyone. So that having a fictitious blogger identity is not, as it were as anonymous as just posting anonymously, sorry if I am being a bit abstruse here what I mean here is that when say Eastcliff Richard posted one always knew it was the same person or at least someone who knew his blogger password.