Green Buckeye

Seth Godin often makes me think, for which I am sometimes grateful and sometimes resentful. This week he wrote a short post on his blog touting the idea of saying, "Not for your blog," when you are having a conversation (with a blogger, presumably) that you do not want to have published online. This is the equivalent of saying that something is "off the record" to a journalist.

I'm pretty conservative with online activity. I always ask whether someone minds if I publish something they've said or even if I can reproduce an email address or phone number. I know I probably overdo the permission thing, but I would be mortified if someone published something I had said or emailed in confidence with asking permission, so . . .

What do you think? I don't come from the generation of digital natives (although I think I may be a missing link between natives and immigrants). Do you like making this request explicit? Is privacy assumed? Or is all information open source and free game? Do you believe Stewart Brand's statement, "Information wants to be free?"

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