For the time being, I intend on posting in both blogs.  Sometimes, they will be the exact same post (or approximations of the same) and other times, they may be quite different.  For today, I feel a similar message should be posted to both.  In twenty-four hours, I have gone from excited about blogging to concerned.  The sources for the page views are such odd places (that I have never heard of before) that I am struck with exactly how public and vastly open the internet can be.  Furthermore, I am struck with how vulnerable individuals can be when posting or communicating online.

What I though would be a fun way to express myself (even after the class is over) is turning into another experience in which I feel I have to censor myself because I never know who is viewing the posts and why they are viewing them.  Maybe it is just me over-reacting.  Maybe the sources involve bots that look for new blogs or sites (presumably to catalog to sell as information).  Maybe I have nothing about which to be concerned.

Yet...

I don't know...

Classmates, what are your thoughts? 

-Brian

Being new to blogging, I must admit I was rather uncertain as to what to create, post, and discuss.  Before this blog was created under the COM250 course blogger.com account, I created a personal blog as part of our week two assignment.  The link to that blog is here:

http://writingbean4fun.blogspot.com/

For the purposes of our class, I would like to know which blog should be utilized?

-Brian