22 Feb 05 Blogging and the family: Northern Voice blogger conference
One attendee in one of our “Introduction to Blog” session suspected that her teenage daughter had a anon. blog. She was wondering if there was a way she could find the blog. We suggested (jokingly) that she surprise the daughter with a gift. Later in the night she could locate the daughter’s blog by running a web search with keywords like “Wow!! my mother bought me a gift”.
Not sure if the mother was able to find the blog (or even if it is a good idea to find the blog). We wonder if the way you interact with someone changes if you read their blogs mainly because you have so more information about the person and the way he or she thinks.
What if the mother also started blogging, would the daughter be equally keen on finding the mom’s blog? What would happen if the entire family blogged? How would it affect the family member’s relationships with each other?
Julie Leung blogs, her husband and her daughters also blog. Last weekend she spoke about Blogging as a Social Tool and Family Lifestyle at the Northern Voice Blogging Conference - a gathering of Canadian bloggers (via Cogdogblog ).
Check out the conference website. They had some interesting people speak there on interesting topics. Hopefully, they will put up some audio from the conference.
Julie Leung also led the “Emotional Life of Weblogs” session at Bloggercon III last november. The amazing IT Conversation site has audio from Julie Leung’s Bloggercon III session on Emotional Life.
Update 1: The conference media is online at the Blogsphereradio site. Thanks Darren.
Update 2: Northern Voice conference covered by The Tyee. Thanks Professor Crawford Kilian.
Update 3: Julie Leung wrote (in response to this post) that it is not a good idea to suggest parents that they use such tricks to figure out their teen’s blogs. I agree, I apologise for not making clear in my post earlier that it was jokingly said.
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Thanks for your comments. There’s a bunch of audio from the event here:
http://www.blogosphereradio.com/shows/8.aspx
Thanks Darren.
If one regularly subscribes to a blog then one would certainly have a preset notion or generalization about the way the blogger thinks. There could be a mental picture formed of the blogger based on what they write. But in this specific case, if one of the family blogs and another member of the family reads the blog, i dont think it would make a difference since they would be living together as family and that is supposed to be the closest unit of social interaction / connectivity.
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