I think there are more possible options -- for instance, my personal preference would be to prohibit external search engine and site-wide searches of my content, but permit searches of my specific content -- e.g. people could come and search my posts on snails, or whatever, but if they searched Google or DW-as-a-whole for posts on snails, mine would not come up.

Which mostly has to do with me feeling like this is my social life, and that therefore I'm under no particular obligations to the internet as a whole to make it universally searchable.

There are certainly places and spaces where I do my part to free the ole information -- but, despite the obviously-strong bias in various parts of internetlandia, I see no particular reason why online social networks, as such, should be places where people feel a need to be making themselves constantly available to all comers.

It's the difference between a performative model and a social model. Much of the blogosphere is performative, but a lot of other social spaces really aren't, and there's no particular reason why they should be.

I used to be a B but I'm easily irritated at this point and have edged into the A category. I forget who said "I am not your user-generated content" but I'd like to add "I am not your online [insert subject/product here] research sample" as a rider.

I wouldn't mind if my access-listers could search my entire journal, though.

Oh my god that's AWESOME.

The Hegemony theater was the campaign by the New Republic against the Ciutric Hegemony of Prince-Admiral Delak Krennel in 9 ABY, just after the defeat of Thrawn.

Heeeee! I feel so pedestrian for having stolen my version from Bruce Schneier via his coinage of "security theatre," yawn.

>>Though I occasionally wonder if I'd be making more personal/biographical posts had I approached LJ differently.

I maybe? probably? have a false sense of security about this. My RL and OL circles overlap almost nowhere and I'm pretty careful to shield my pseud from professional contacts especially. Advertisers and prospective employers excluded, I sort of have a why-would-anyone-care attitude for most of what I post. Anyway, results like your Google search are exactly what I'm looking for.