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theFerf
Apr 12th, 2005, 04:01 AM
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has come up with a prescription that should let Internet writers "Blog without fear." They offer a set of suggestions for bloggers for retaining privacy and guarding against embarassment or "just plain weirdness" in front of friends and coworkers.

EFF sums up their recommendations: "You can no longer safely assume that people in your offline life won't find out about your blog, if you ever could. New RSS tools and services mean that it's even easier than ever search and aggregate blog entries. As long as you blog anonymously and in a work-safe way, what you say online is far less likely to come back to hurt you."

Read more... (http://www.podcastingnews.com/archives/2005/04/electronic_fron.html)

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Dominar
Apr 12th, 2005, 08:18 AM
I'm one of the "few dozen" that was fired for blogging.
yaz
Apr 12th, 2005, 10:25 AM
if people blog at work they should be fired...if they talk **** about their co-workers in a blog, whats the difference between that and standing around the water cooler or in the bathroom talking **** about the person...people are too mother****in sensitive...
gozar
Apr 12th, 2005, 10:35 AM
I'm one of the "few dozen" that was fired for blogging.

Ugh! Is it a story you could share?
Dominar
Apr 12th, 2005, 10:52 AM
I'm one of the "few dozen" that was fired for blogging.

Ugh! Is it a story you could share?

Not yet. It's been less then a year since I was fired.

Needless to say it was entirely my fault. I did several "wrong" things according to the EFF article. That being said I think all the stuff in the article is pretty much a given if you are doing a blog and are concerned about anonimity.

I was in a stage where I wasn't really in touch with reality. I was so focused on one issue that I became blind to the consquences. So, I learned a lesson the hard way.

I'd say the number one thing is don't use names, and certainly not full names, either of where you work (I didn't) or people you work with (here's where I screwed up).

One post of a person's name put me in 1st place in Google. This person was published so their name may be searched for by alot of people. I thnk that's what turned the IT police on to me.

There's more to it but that's all I can get into.