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Username and Password, Please

Published
by
Hildy
on March 14, 2008
in Learning about Blogging and Tools to Use Now
. 2 Comments

This morning, on a listserv, someone posted a link to her blog - another tale of plagiarism chutzpa. I went to comment, and found I would have to log in to do so.

And so I didn’t.

I know Web 2.0 tools now allow everyone to form a community, and allow everyone to now track who is using your site. But just because the tools allow it, do we all have to do it?

Nick, our office curmudgeon, sent this Sheldon comic around the office, after yet another office-wide rant about logging in and joining networks.

At Forbes’s online site, I have to sign in if I want to read the comments. At many sites, I have to log in if I want to make a comment. I don’t want to be part of their community - I just want to read the article!

I am sick of logging in. I am sick of being asked to join everyone’s group on Facebook. I am sick of the repeated invitations to join Linked-In, by people I do not know.

If a business wants me engaged, forcing me to engage (i.e. give them contact info) is not exactly what I call “engaged.”

If a group wants to build “community,” my vision of community does not include a clubhouse with a lock and key. To be honest, that’s my vision of what community helps tear down!

So can someone please tell me - other than benefiting the people who run those sites and want my info - what’s in it for me to keep having to log in?

Violating My Personal Space!

Published
by
Hildy
on February 7, 2008
in Learning about Blogging
. 1 Comment

Hello, all!
Just a note to say that yes, the blog has been down for a chunk of this week. We discovered, purely by accident (and thank goodness for that accident), that someone or something had breached the site’s security, and had inserted code in some of the posts. The code was invisible at the blog itself, but when viewed in a reader, you would see a long list of links for Viagra (and then some!)

Needless to say, finding that code inserted in my posts made me feel about the same way I felt when I found the college professor had plagiarized my article last spring. (For those who weren’t around then, it is definitely worth a read!)

We still have a few minor bugs to work out - some gobbledy gook (a prize to whoever finds odd symbols instead of apostrophes and quotation marks!).

And so, from now on, if you do see any mysterious links in any of my posts, PLEASE let me know!

Thanks for your patience, gang - I’ll be back posting in the next few days!

Hildy

Blogs Confuse Me

Published
by
Hildy
on May 10, 2007
in Learning about Blogging
. 2 Comments

This is a special post, just for those who are new to blogging. If blogs confuse you, and you want to know more about what blogs are and how to participate, just let us know, and we will try to make it easy for you to become part of the age of blogs! You can start by hitting the word “Comment” below. Fill in the boxes that pop up on the screen, and we will try to make it all clear for you!

If you are looking for some basic info on blogs, written so even someone as un-techie as me can understand it, just click here. If you would rather just ask your question, though, just post it here and lets see if we can’t find a way to explain it!

Hildy

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