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By the way are you coming to our Digital readings Coference?
Sat Nov 8th ayt The University of Sheffield.

Hey Karl!! Good to see you and thanks for calling by!! You mention buses … I can never believe what people blurt out on mobile phones on the bus!!

I’d much rather assume the best about people than be constantly suspicious. However, that doesn’t mean being a fool. Being honest online doesn’t necessarily mean giving everything away or having no privacy. As in offline life we can find ways of interacting at appropriate levels for appropriate relationships and settings.

Not everyone online is being honest and we all have an agenda – whether that’s to be liked, to contribute to debate or to mislead, con and phish. Some people like to focus on the bad bits and delight in being cleverly suspicious – as we are all aware, every single word on Wikipedia is not to be trusted.

I like to think I’m sufficiently experienced now to be just me both on and offline – well, I hope so. I find it interesting to see how either incautious or rabidly suspicious some people can be though. Is this how they are on the bus, I wonder.

I consider in a place such as Flickr it is relatively easy to pick up the ‘telling’ signs, (subconsciously?) verify stuff and adjust a relationship accordingly. In other places I’m amazed at what people blurt out to the world. Blogs, obviously, but Facebook et al too: I can see who’s bought who a fish or a drink and who’s given who a sexy back rub as well as who they’re friends with and what they’re saying to each other. I’d rather reserve the right stuff for broadcasting and other stuff for a conversation. I’m also interested that even writing this comment I’m peripheraly aware we’re not having a private conversation and tailoring my pearls of wisdom (and mixed metaphors) accordingly.

Don’t mean to sound superior, just very interested. I’ll be round to sit at Joolz’s knee for more insights shortly. Well, just as soon as I’ve re-supplied my personal details to five banks I didn’t know I had accounts with.

You might be pleased to know that after half-term I’m going to be doing non-fiction texts with Y9 and I’m planning on spending a few lessons on blogs and how we interpret and verify the authenticity of them.

I’ll be using ideas from your blog posts and from the sessions last year and I’ll be sure to share the resources once they’re created. I’ll be using Baghdad Burning and a selection of other blogs, so if you’ve any recommendations please let me know!