yes, i expect your mom, like my mom, to be able to become comfortable with blogging over a period of time, to be able to master what skills they desire to have, and from there to make decisions. uber bloggers don't happen over night, but then... all you really have to do is give your mom a copy of "Rule the Web" and that pretty much puts it as simply and easily as you can get... my assumption here is that if you want to write on the web... you can likely read. In the case that people using the web cannot read, we have a significant ethical problem centering around capacities, but that isn't the case for bloggers I'd posit. On Aug 14, 2007, at 7:09 PM, Michael Zimmer wrote:
yes, but again, we're assuming the uber-blogger. Let's say my Mom starts a blog, must we expect her to master password settings and the like? Do only the technically-proficient benefit from protections, rather than the average (or below) publishers of web content? -mz
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