I agree with Maman Poulet, there have been interesting posts about tonight’s awards, relating to the personae we create in our blogs. This is a familiar issue for me, as for years the Bootboy column was written anonymously for Hot Press, so I could write about what I liked. It gave me a lot of freedom to write about very personal stuff in the early years, for I knew how political the personal was, and is. As my confidence grew, I realised I could take that freedom with me, incorporate it into the “me” that people knew in “real” life. But I acknowledge that merging public/private identities is not just about confidence, there are many other factors to take into account, such as Red Mum‘s poignant dilemma.

I love, in particular, that girl‘s notion that “blogs are curated spaces”. We are, indeed, curators of our online identities, crafting, polishing, fiddling, dusting, fine-tuning the exhibition that contains our creative output. I’m looking forward to meeting fellow curators at the tech event this afternoon, and at the main event this evening.