very simple

The New York Times Magazine today highlights the particular complications of blogs that focus on things like sex. I actually read this yesterday morning, but the online link wasn’t available until today (the one advantage to subscribing to the actual hard copy of the Times is that you get the special "Sunday sections" on Saturday, meaning you can start on the crossword a day early).

I tend to not blog about my personal life too much, because I’m not going to write about things that involve other people without at least their tacit permission. My personal rule of thumb (strangely appropriate to the article) is to never write anything that I wouldn’t be willing to have appear on the front page of the Times. Obviously it never would, but I can guarantee that the one person you were hoping wouldn’t find their way to the blog is the one who is going to find it. I generally don’t blog about work (except in generalities) because of this reason combined with the ethical obligations of the job (that whole confidentiality thing kinda matters, a lot, in the legal profession). I think "Smitten" in the article put it best in relation to the whole Washingtonienne scandal:

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