on RSS feeds
I've just discovered that someone has put the RSS feed of my LiveJournal on my author page at GoodReads, and furthermore discovered that I'm not comfortable with this.
I deliberately chose not to put the feed on my Amazon author page. The public posts on this LJ/DW are public -- anyone who wants to read them is welcome to do so. But it seems to me that there's a difference between people coming here to read them, and people reading them on what purports to be an Official Author Page. My LiveJournal/DreamWidth is just that, a journal and ongoing context-is-for-the-weak conversation with a bunch of my friends, and it explicitly says that on my profile page. Even without that, it's fairly obvious from context when you read the comments that this is what's going on. I think that having the posts scraped to some other site makes it look as if it's my Official Author Blog done for publicity purposes. Which given the whining about medical problems, and wittering about cybermats -- yeah. Not so much.
This was always a risk with having my LJ open other than some fairly specific posts, but it's the first time it's really become an issue. I suspect that a higher percentage of posts are going to be locked in future.
Mirror of http://julesjones.dreamwidth.org/152885.html, where it has received
comments.
I deliberately chose not to put the feed on my Amazon author page. The public posts on this LJ/DW are public -- anyone who wants to read them is welcome to do so. But it seems to me that there's a difference between people coming here to read them, and people reading them on what purports to be an Official Author Page. My LiveJournal/DreamWidth is just that, a journal and ongoing context-is-for-the-weak conversation with a bunch of my friends, and it explicitly says that on my profile page. Even without that, it's fairly obvious from context when you read the comments that this is what's going on. I think that having the posts scraped to some other site makes it look as if it's my Official Author Blog done for publicity purposes. Which given the whining about medical problems, and wittering about cybermats -- yeah. Not so much.
This was always a risk with having my LJ open other than some fairly specific posts, but it's the first time it's really become an issue. I suspect that a higher percentage of posts are going to be locked in future.
Mirror of http://julesjones.dreamwidth.org/152885.html, where it has received
comments.
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