Blogging and Bad Language
I see that Damien has posted about the usage of bad language in blogging. I really don’t have a problem reading posts that use expletives as they do in natural language - like a running conversation. Damien?s style doesn?t rub me the wrong way. In fact, I feel like I can actually hear him speaking. If bad language be colourful splashes on the blogging canvas, then Damien is Pollock.My tolerance level tops out where I see bloggers using bad language to deliberately grab attention. This amounts to abusing their readership. People will very soon drop those feeds from their reader.
I don’t generally use expletives when I blog. It’s not a conscious decision I make, but rather, I like to spend time on a post. Spending time writing and reworking a piece, inevitably, robs some of my posts of that heartbeat immediacy. That dangerous spark where an expletive could find itself in my WP edit box. I have been known to use the odd expletive in mblogging or on IM, though. 
There are too many conventions already in the manner of modern communications. Imagine what our forebearers would think of our sanitised language today. Think of Shakespeare and the glorious ripe language he used.
I say let expletives in blogging stay. If people want to distinguish their blogs as havens of expletive-free expression then they can brand their sites using a Parental Rating like Curse-free. Let people opt in. We shouldn’t squash someone’s right to use bad language, just because their perception of acceptable differs from our own.