Blogging - is it a sin?

Bess writes: Moral starter for 10: is Blogging a sin?

This post by Tod Goldberg on Jewcy.com caught my eye this morning. Goldberg makes the valid point is that bloggers who post up (and who hasn’t?) items about their lives involving friends, partners and or family members are guilty of gossip – or to be more specific break the Jewish law against Lashon Hara – and thus may upset people still alive. Lashon Hara derives – as do Christian prohibitions on gossip – from Leviticus  19:16: “Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people.”

Frankly it’s a moral dilemma for any writer who gets their best material from real life incidents, people or anecdotes. A temptation for sure. But just where do you draw the line between a cracking story and upsetting the parties involved? Surely respecting your partner, friend or family must rank above a good tale? And is anonymity really enough when, as in the case of Goldberg’s mother, the person involved recognises the details? She burst into tears and told him that he shouldn’t talk about his family on the internet. 

A fair point - but where does this leave bloggers? Particularly those for whom as Jennifer Howze of Alpha Mummy reported recently blogging is a  vital, at times confessional, outlet  And even on a personal detail, are some things too private for public sharing? (See this Politics Daily report on the woman who ‘tweeted’ her miscarriage - in my opinion definitely too much information! ).
What do you think?