[Air-L] The Spiders will find you (was wayback machine waspublic/private)

[Lois Ann Scheidt]

I believe the research already shows that most non-uber-bloggers use 
one of the online services such as LiveJournal or Blogger as their 
training ground.  Both sites, and every other similar one I can think 
of, makes private and public very clear in their set-up.

I think it may be "what if'ing" to think a newbie blogger could set-up 
their own site, and install and format the software without having 
enough knowledge to at least ask the password protection 
question...even if they didn't immediately know how to set a password 
up.

Lois Ann Scheidt

Doctoral Student - School of Library and Information Science, Indiana
University, Bloomington IN USA

Adjunct Instructor - School of Informatics, IUPUI, Indianapolis IN USA and
IUPUC, Columbus IN USA

Webpage:  http://www.loisscheidt.com
Blog:  http://www.professional-lurker.com


Quoting Michael Zimmer <michael.zimmer at nyu.edu>:

> yes, but again, we're assuming the uber-blogger. Let's say my Mom
> starts a blog, must we expect her to master password settings and the
> like? Do only the technically-proficient benefit from protections,
> rather than the average (or below) publishers of web content? -mz
>
> On Aug 14, 2007, at 7:54 PM, Jeremy Hunsinger wrote:
>
>> Let's keep in mind that it is easy enough to make a blog with
>> differing levels of access and thus private messages can stay private
>> and public can be public.   There is no reason to license anything
>> really, you just have to properly configure your blog if you want
>> private sections.
>> On Aug 14, 2007, at 6:35 PM, elw at stderr.org wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>> Copyright does not let you pick, but what if I include a restrictive
>>>> license? Someone earlier suggested a "Researchers May Not Research
>>>> Me"
>>>> license, for example. How far may "Terms of Service" extend? Even
>>>> if I
>>>> do not have password protection, couldn't readers be exposed to a
>>>> clickwrap license (ToS) on reading my blog?
>>>
>>> General consensus among attorneys I know has long been that clickwrap
>>> licenses on *software* are questionable.  By extension, I believe
>>> that
>>> such a thing on a blog post would be even more so.
>>>
>>> ToS/"don't research me" leads you quickly to the slippery slope
>>> down which
>>> such themes as "thoughtcrime" lie....
>>>
>>> --e
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list
>>> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://
>>> aoir.org
>>> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://
>>> listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
>>>
>>> Join the Association of Internet Researchers:
>>> http://www.aoir.org/
>>
>> Jeremy Hunsinger
>> Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research,
>> School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
>> (www.cipr.uwm.edu)
>>
>> Words are things; and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a
>> thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions,
>> think. --Byron
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list
>> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org
>> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://
>> listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
>>
>> Join the Association of Internet Researchers:
>> http://www.aoir.org/
>
> _______________________________________________
> The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list
> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org
> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at:
> http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
>
> Join the Association of Internet Researchers:
> http://www.aoir.org/
>