Geotagging Blog Posts – Do You Want Your Readers To Know?
This post over at The Blog Herald got me thinking. It’s about geotagging posts, which means showing people where you are on a map.
Why? Well, sometimes it might be relevant to see where in the world you were when you published a post, especially if you’re doing a travel-focused blog.
However, do you really want people to know where you are? Tabloids in Sweden ran a story on burglars using blogs to find out who was on vacation, and then broke into their houses. While that might happen for sure, I believe this particular story was a way to scare people into buying issues, reading about those scary blog things.
That being said, being at least a bit anonymous is what a lot of people find appealing with blogs.
Would you consider geotagging your blog posts?
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I’d do it for posts where the location was relevant (conference/event) but I wouldn’t do it for every post…
On the privacy side when I geo photos, for all kinds of reasons, I never tag stuff exactly where I live (usually a major intersection or two away)
By Ryan Coleman on February 28, 2008 1:22 am
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