Just wanted to say thanks to everyone who voted in the Baltimore Sun’s Mobbie Awards for Maryland’s Outstanding Blogs (and to my “mob,” in particular).

If you are local to the Maryland area and want to find some great local blogs, all of the nominees on the list are worth a peek.

Categories included: foodie, humor, pop culture, music and nightlife, neighborhood, news, politics, sports, Ravens, Orioles, Terps, family, personal, photography, art and DIY, business and technology, as well as a category for those blogs that defy categorization.

I thought this awards event did a great job of raising awareness about Maryland’s local blogs and bloggers. (Hat tip to the brainchild on this at the Sun.) It was great to see people rally around the blogging community here and I was thrilled to discover a few new finds to add to my RSS feed reader.

Congrats to all of the winners in each of the categories and to everyone in the top 10 best overall list.

Click here for a full listing of all Mobbies nominees and here to learn more about “the Social Sun.” Oh, and if you want to check out The Baltimore Sun’s list of news blogs, just click on through… http://www.baltimoresun.com/about/blogs/

Now back to our regularly scheduled programming.

Coming soon…

I’m working on a post about privacy online to address the many, many, many, many questions and concerns people have brought to me over the past few months during presentations I’ve given and subsequent to some of my blog posts. It’s a big topic to tackle — but I’m on the case.

I invite you to send in your “privacy questions” now so I can incorporate them into my article.

In the meantime, I have this pearl of wisdom to share: if you don’t want something made public, don’t post it — EVEN IF you have all of your “privacy settings” on lock down on any given site or social platform. That’s just one woman’s opinion, but it’s a good preemptive privacy policy, no?

I’m going to take a closer look at the laws, the culture, and the best practices so that, together, we can figure out how to maneuver comfortably in the transparent, social online world without losing our individual senses of privacy.

Until then…