These days there is always a new blog. Over the long haul, it appears that the more stable and informative blogs will be tend to be those associated with organizations. Because the financial cost is low, individual bloggers will always crop up and write for awhile, but most fizzle. Even if you have a talent for writing it takes a lot of time to keep your web site sufficiently active to maintain a cadre of interested readers.
Nonetheless, that does not mean we will not have numerous blogs. Blogs provide a new and easy way to reach local communities. Here is the latest example, Your Piece of the Planet, brought to you by The Prince William Conservation Alliance. This blog is written by a thoughtful and well organized group. Unfortunately, like most thoughtful and well organized groups, they are also nosy people.
In the email the The Prince William Conservation Alliance sent me to tell me about their new blog, they embedded a little trick to verify whether or not I visited their blog. That is, the hyperlinks in their email did two things. In addition to taking me to their blog, when I clicked on hyperlink referencing one of posts on their blog, that click also notified IContact that I had clicked on that hyperlink.
Why do I mention this? My point is this. Never assume anonymity on the web. Do not even assume you have any right to be anonymous. If you are dealing with an organized group, and they have any financial interest in gathering information about you and any way of legally getting that information, they will get it.
Other Views
For those who are interested, The Green Miles lists additional members of the “green” blogosphere (here).
Here is the The Prince William Conservation Alliance announcement of their blog on iContactCommunity.
