Something which was quite important for me in a blogspace is privacy and I'll like to share some of my experiences with the privacy features on the sites I've used:
It was quite recent that blogger had the private feature where only invited readers can read your blog. However, I was not fully satisfied as it did not allow me to differentiate between different readers. For example anyone whom I invite will be able to read all my posts unless I only save them as drafts.
Vox was about to address this better as it allows you to designate readers as "neighbours, friends, family" and allows you to decide which post should be open to which reader. However, your readers will need to have their own accounts with Vox to be designated as any of the above so it is more inconvenient.
My most recent blog (apart from this!) is on Wordpress and it's turning out to be my favorite so far. Instead of having to invite friends to have either a google account like blogger or a Vox account like Vox, you're able to choose whether to make a post public or private. For public posts, you can choose to set passwords for posts which might contain more scandalous details (*wink*) and give them to people whom you are comfortable with reading those posts. You can set a different password for different posts and while I think there are inconveniences to it as well, it's something I'm most comfortable with by far.
Ok! Enough about technical details, I haven't even started to introduce myself!
My name is Yanxiang and I'm from Singapore, currently doing a Masters at the Ed School in Language and Literacy. I'm really excited about this class because I was quite blown away by the readings in the first week especially about how technology is not supposed to make learning 'easy', just to remove unneccessary obstacles. So here's hoping I'll learn to do that! I'm sure there'll be more to say and discuss over the weeks, but for now, here's a picture of myself, edited with what I hoped was some artistic flair with PICASA (another free graphic program you might want to try! It's a picture organizer that comes with a photo-editing tool. You can download it at www.picasa.com)
(You can tell I'm very into the monochromatic colour scheme ^.^)
2 comments:
Hi there. If you like having even more control over your privacy, might I suggest you check out I.PH Blogs. It also allows you to set the privacy setting for each individual post. You can specify who gets to see what and you can give access even to people who aren't on I.PH and the rest of your readers won't even know that there are hidden posts on your blog. Try it out. I have a feeling it will work better for you.
Thanks for the comparison of the privacy setting differences on different blog hosts. I think we should talk more about privacy in UDL as we discuss all these web tools.
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