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Are Online Friends "Real Friends"?

by sweetney at 11:20am Fri, 21 Jul 2006 under Social Media, BlogHer Conferences, Life, Mommy & Family
Embroiled in the online world as I have been for some time now, I've come to a place recently where dividing up my life into discreet territories -- my "blogging life" and my "real life" -- seems a bit flimsy, and probably not even terribly accurate. In truth, I'm not entirely certain where one ends and the other begins anymore, or if it even matters.

Why Comment?

by sweetney at 8:23am Fri, 9 Jun 2006 under Life, Mommy & Family, Technology & Web
Contributing Editor Tracey Gaughran-Perez also blogs at sweetney.com & Jinkies! To comment or not to comment? That's the question at issue over at Motherhood Uncensored, where Kristin has started up a great discussion about why people comment on blogs (or don't), and what blog reader and author expectations are regarding comments and commenting behavior.

What I Did For Blog.*

by sweetney at 2:37pm Fri, 2 Jun 2006 under Life, Mommy & Family, BlogHer Ad Network for Parents
Contributing Editor Tracey Gaughran-Perez also blogs at sweetney.com Mrs. Kennedy from Fussy is not alone in her massive, unyeilding dorkitude. Oh hells no.

Baldomom Sticks It To The Man (And I Love Her For It).

by sweetney at 2:09pm Fri, 19 May 2006 under Mommy & Family
Contributing Editor Tracey Gaughran-Perez also blogs at sweetney.com Please tell me I've mentioned Baldo here before, because if I haven't, somebody best hit me upside the head with something hard and heavy repeatedly for such a ridiculous oversight. For while I rarely feel this way about any public figure, my love for Marrit of Baldo truly borders on fangirlish. Whenever I see that she's posted new content, I get all a-twitter with excitement and want to, like, call all my girlfriends just to exclaim "OH. MY. GOD. She's dreeeeamy!"

Blogging Parents And Privacy.

by sweetney at 10:00am Fri, 5 May 2006 under Mommy & Family
Contributing Editor Tracey Gaughran-Perez also blogs at sweetney.com I've been thinking about the topic of privacy on the internet for some time now, but until about a week ago the issue was still fairly abstract and impersonal for me. Then, during a conversation last week about my blog, my husband -- who works with America's Most Wanted through his web-related job, and has apparently been exposed to some very frightening child abduction stories and the like through that -- mentioned he thought perhaps I should consider removing our daughter's name from my site. And that was around the time my head exploded.