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Mom on the Edge (Chilihead) had an interesting discussion going last week about privacy issues with blogging. It’s something we’ve thought a lot about as well. In fact, at one point, we even wrote a short article about it, although we didn’t end up submitting it anywhere.

It’s a little freaky how Google gets their sticky little fingers into everything. Not to mention horror stories like strangers stealing kids photos for their own nefarious uses. These things do happen, apparently, so some caution is warranted. We love the Groucho glasses that Chilihead uses as disguises in all her photos!

A lot of people use aliases and there’s a lively discussion on the pros and cons of this at Chilihead’s blog. We thought about that too, but since our blog was originally started to talk about our book, which will hopefully end up being published someday—we decided to use our real names. For the time being, however, we decided to keep our blog content off Google through strategic use of the no-cache, no-index commands. So in the meantime, if you’ve found us, it’s only through the blogging community (we are on Technorati, and of course read and comment on other blogs).

So that’s a long way of saying that we’re trying to have our cake and eat it too, without a helping of Google! Check out the discussion at Chilihead’s blog too—it’s really interesting.

--Melanie & Kelly