In the interest of security, I am constantly tempted to make it a requirement for you, the readers to sign in before being able to access our posts.
From my profile page, I've noticed that I've had about 100 profile views. Assuming that each person views my profile less than once, this means I've had more than 100 separate people on the blog. This concerns me as the blog is intended mostly to be a means of sharing information with our friends and family and thus includes personal information.
Blogger enables owners of blogs to control who has access to their blogs by choosing who is allowed to view the blog. Unfortunately, this means that only people with registered gmail or blogger accounts and who I have specifically granted permission to will be able to log in and view our posts.
The alternative might be a much less richly detailed blog moving forward, and careful redaction of previous posts.
I wanted to poll the readers to see if you felt that requiring you to log on would be so onerous that you would stop visiting.
I would, for the most part, grant permission to almost anyone I know or who has been referred to the blog by someone I know.
If you have an opinion on this, I implore you to please leave a comment in the comments section letting me know what you think. I'd prefer to not have to force people to log on but am carefully considering this option.
Thanks, All.
John
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
4 comments:
If it's just a matter of signing in to the site each time, that's not so bad. Go for security and then be free to tell what you want to your audience. It won't deter the regulars! :-) XXOO
You shouldn't have censor yourself in your own blog. Signing in really isn't a problem. We need to do that to comment anyways... We all still need the Margaret updates, so as Roz put it, it won't deter us one bit.
happy to logon :)
I work with Roz and enjoy reading your blog and being able to share in her excitement of her wonderful grandchild. I do not have a blogger account but I do not have a problem signing in.
Post a Comment