So some people delete posts for one reason or another. Maybe they wrote it in the heat of the moment and later regretted it. Or maybe they offended someone's feelings. I don't really care what other people do to their personal weblogs. It's theirs, and not mine. (Blogs that proport to be rivals of traditional journalism, on the other hand, is a totally different matter.)
But would I pull one of my own posts? Probably not. It feels rather dishonest to me to delete something and go about the rest of the day as if nothing were wrong. Spelling edits and addendums are things that I have done, but I haven't gone so far as to change the entire tone of a post or eliminate it altogether.
Have I written things in reflex because of something that had immediately riled me? Of course. But I have never gone directly to the blogging software and hit "publish". I write all of my posts on a word processing document first. Besides spellchecking, if I remember to do so, it affords me a little space between my emotions and the world wide web.
In the future though, we might get transistors implanted into our brains. Then you'll know exactly what I'm thinking all the time--a scenario that my paranoid self already thinks is happening with mind-readers.
Links: Nothing Random. (via 2Blowhards) A fascinating look into the publishing industry where the media owners, publishers, and editors are in a constant tug-of-war between money and literature as well as class elitism and mass pandering. That the CEO and chairman of Random House owns stuffed animals and gives all his employees a CD with his wife's picture on the cover is particularly telling.
Psychedelic Sheep: Custom Wool Hairpieces. This is where all those weirdos who go to anime cons go to shop for the finishing touches of their favorite character costumes.
