Something to think about when you publish a blog or other personal web site

This morning, I was modifying my blog to include functionality to add blog posts on my website to Facebook. In doing so, I realized, that some content that included on my blog and Facebook site contained content that may be considered inflammatory, derogatory, and/or offensive. For example, discussions around the upcoming presidential election, same sex marriage, or whether or not farting is fun to do (yes, someone actually posted a conversation about farting).

Because there are times when I do not agree with the content of site in question, I do not want someone to mistakingly assume I share the opinions being expressed on it. By including the content on my blog, it stands to reason that you could assume I share the same viewpoint and even worse be offended by it.

You have to be careful of your web presence. In todays world, it is not uncommon for someone to Google your name and you want to be certain that what ever comes back in the search results, that every instance where your name is plastered on the web it best represent you as a person. Of course there are instances of mistaking identity, after all, the world is a big place and people do have the same name as you (if you Googled my name from the link above, I'm not a professional Tennis player, although ironically enough, I was born in the St. Louis area).

And before you add a comment with a smart ass remarks about what content I could possibly be discussing (you know who you are), the content was coming from Floort.  You should check the sight out, there are some thought provoking (and not so thought provoking) conversations that go on there.

Test Post Using Flock

While surfing tonight, learned about a browser that's been around for a while.  It's called Flock.  It's built on the Mozilla engine and puts an emphasis on the social networking of the web.  That is, it provides tools for Blogging, Flickr, FaceBook and other services that are integrated into the browser.  I'm making this post using the integration of Blogger.  Like it so far.