Brian Bailey @ Leave It Behind posted the following:
["FeedMap is an interesting new way to connect weblogs with real life. Chandu Thota has written a cool web app that uses MapPoint to display blog locations on a map [via Scoble]. In other words, you can get a picture of who is blogging in your very own neighborhood. You’ll find my experiment on the right-side of my blog. Check out FeedMap."
Technically I think this is really cool, but I have a concern. That concern actually kept me from seriously blogging from when Userland Radio was released until June 2004 when I really consistently posted publically.
The concern is the linking of my personal blog data, to my family, and to where I phyiscally live. It seems to me that this is going to become a very gray area where people need to make some up front decisions and make sure they don’t expose too much information.
That being said, there is a ton of public informatoin out there. I guess "geolocating" and "calendar scheduling" me is probably not that hard, but providing all the information in a nice easy space on my blog isn’t a good practice IMHO.
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