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Geotagging Blog Posts – Do You Want Your Readers To Know?

geotagging.jpgThis 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?

Originally posted on February 28, 2008 @ 12:12 am

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