Blog Is Not Email
(Do you get the reference?)
As an addendum to my previous post regarding privacy and blogging, I realized that email is often a fine solution. If you’re writing one-to-many content, but only mean for it to be read by a select few friends, then what you might be seeking to recreate is simply email. And why not? Make a BCC-ish list of trusted people, and when you have personal thoughts to send, craft a letter and send it off. I know a few people who have moved from blog back to email, and with success. After all this Web stuff, it’s can be a surprisingly intimate medium.
(Interestingly, I’ve seen the reverse of this: people using one-person filters on Livejournal to contact individuals when they’ve lost the email addresses. Nothing easy is ever simple.)
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