Anonymous said…
Now I am in a real dilemma. I have just replied… attempted to preview… and lost my witty response. So here goes again. But with less wit!

You do know me, but not very well. I think I know Kate, but she doesn’t know me. I am extremely grateful to you for your recent generosity. To reveal or not? I have a question/some questions first. Do you think about your audience when making your postings? Do you care about us? Do we help shape the representation of yourself that the blog is? I am interested in children’s use of sites like Bebo and Hi5 to create social identities for themselves - and am getting particularly interested in issues of control, when other children post onto friends’ sites - and how this relates to playground dynamics too.

Now you may know who I am… but my ego is appropriately wee, so you probably still don’t. I will leave you to muse.

Kate… sorry to hear about your bad day.

Bye for now

So says Clare on DrJoolz here.

Clare had posted comments on my blog every now and then, but I did not know who it was; I had in mind it may be an MA student but at first did not wonder for long. However, after a while I really wanted to know. This suggests I do care who reads and that I think about writing for a specific audience. Is this different from other writing though? I always try to think of a group of people who may read articles I write, or chapters for books (etc.) in order to help me write. This is not a special feature of blogging. But something that you can do is monitor who visits the site and people can join in. It is quite common on my blog for commenters to ytalk to each other and their text definitely is a key feature of the blog. This is the case also on Bitch PhD, or Profgirrrl and others.