Comments on: Family Blogging Effect

By: Harriet

Harriet — Tue, 13 May 2008 12:47:18 +0000

It was fun to read about our conversation in your blog! I enjoy reading it and seeing your pictures because you’re so far away and it gives me a chance to see what you’re up to. I can also learn some neat stuff!

BTW, Mom bought the new PC against my advice–I told her to keep the old one and had spent a lot of time cleaning it up to improve performance. Yet another instance where she asks me for advice but doesn’t follow it. That’s Mom!!!

By: Stephen Downes

Stephen Downes — Mon, 12 May 2008 12:03:15 +0000

My mother reads my blog, and also follows my Flickr account (she commented on a recent photo-of-the-day by email). Several of my brothers and other relatives also read my blog.

Does it change what I post? No.

By: Sue Waters

Sue Waters — Mon, 12 May 2008 08:13:27 +0000

Nope and could just imagine if mum did she might tell me off about my spelling, grammar etc (or leave a reminder about someone’s birthday since she knows I hate phone calls). And there’s no way she or other family members are joining me in Twitter (could just imagine hubby and my kids tweets e.g. What’s for dinner? When is dinner? My brother is hitting me).

My husband occasionally Googles my name at lunch time to see what I’m getting up to on my sites (NOTE to self - remember to be careful what I say on twitter near lunch time).

Saying all that I think its really cool that reading your blog has helped your sister with her work.

By: Ingunn

Ingunn — Mon, 12 May 2008 06:13:34 +0000

My blog is about teaching, learning and web 2.0 (in Norwegian), and my mother reads every single letter in it. She’s a teacher herself, but the main reason for her to read my blog is that she feels like I’m sharing more of my life with her. Which is true, I guess. I also have a younger brother who reads it from time to time. I like that, it is nice that they show interest in what I do. All my family members are into computers and internet, but my husband shows no interest at all, because he finds the whole computer business boring.
Nice blog you have here, by the way - I’ve got lots of ideas from reading it

By: Devon

Devon — Mon, 12 May 2008 03:27:39 +0000

I think sometimes until I hooked up with the CyberSalonAZ, my mum was the only who read it. (I am talking about my family blog at http://www.nooccar.com)… about the same time, I realized my work blog http://www.dcamd.com was really friggin’ boring and Web Zero.Zero, so I revamped with it the help of friends. I now keep work blog and family blogging separate.

But today for Mother’s Day, I told my mother that if she wants to know what I am doing, she needs to start following my Twitter. So I got her a twitter account. When I post, I always have to remember to copy it to her SMS, but no more!

My siblings are perpetual luddites though.