For the last year or so I’ve been keeping a personal blog, things that happen in everyday life. The range of topics is quite large, from the cure puppy I may have seen on my way to the library, to the more serious type like cursing that the idiot that cut me off this morning.

On Blogger, your blog can be public, which means anyone can view it - obviously I don’t want that, I just want close friends and family to read it so they know what it going on in my behind the scenes world. The next level is “only blog authors”, again I don’t want this because only I want to be writing on my blog. The final option is “only invited guests”, whereby I can invite (and authorize) people to view and comment on my blog posts.

This is a nice stop gap measure for the people whose emails I’ve got. The truth is that I do not have all of my family’s email addresses and some don’t even use email due to generational or technological issues. The killer feature here would be something like twitter’s “request to follow”. My twitter feed is also protected, and if anyone wants to follow me they can make a request and I can approve or deny. I would like this functionality in Blogger – it would make life so much easier!