Listen to that conversation you’re having with yourself. Your Journal users will be having that same experience.
Widely adopted solutions…
Pseudonomous or anonymous blogs. widely popular in Eastern Europe among online diarists.
Multiple blogs, a public one, and a private/password-protected one.
I interviewed a woman who uses four: one professional blog, a family foto and happenings blog, a pseudonomous blog about her rather racy love life, and a novel blog written about a fictional character in the first person using a blog.
One of her concerns: bleedover. Having family discover the racy side or potential employers seeing she has kids.
Feature: Really important to let people know they can go back and hide a post, taking it back. It may still live in Google cache, but it won’t be on your site any longer.
Blogging is a new way of being in public, so we all have skills for managing celebrity to invent and absorb.
btw, much better to wind up in the wrong office building than the wrong bedroom I always say. I couldn’t find my clothes fast enough.