Ran across two posts by blueschnauzer about separating one's personal and professional personas on the web.
I've mused before about this, and what sort of consequences it might have for my future professional life, and I still haven't found a happy balance for myself.
Obviously, rambling on about music, movies, silly websites, and my whacked-out sleeping patterns falls in the category of personal interests. Ostensibly, writing about technology, IA, KM, or anything workplace-related would fall under "professional". But these topics also interest me on a personal/intellectual level. I guess that's one of the hazards of working in a field that one enjoys, and especially a field which is evolving constantly -- it makes it hard to check everything at the office door and just go home for the night.
This issue is also on my mind thanks to my blurb on there being too many goddam IA books, which references a post by David Crow. David's post got picked up by InfoDesign and Elegant Hack (and the gods only know who else).
David, in turn, posted a follow-up which cites my blurb. Which means that I got a wee bit of traffic from people in the same line of work as me, who wound up reading a piece that starts out reasonably coherent but quickly devolves into a self-pitying whinge-fest. Not likely the best presentation of myself to my peers.
I thought about deleting the remark about being in my pyjamas for three days, but I've left it in. I can't quite bring myself to remove it, because it's part of the person who I am right now. I can't help that.
I still don't know about this....