Don't Blog

Celebrity sometimes comes to employee bloggers publishing outside the firewall. How big is the risk they'll quit your firm for a job in journalism, media, or micropublishing? With some having daily readership in the tens of thousands, money and fame and independence beckon.

Dooced defined by UrbanDictionary.com

Losing your job for something you wrote in your online blog, journal, website, etc.

Did you hear Mary got fired yesterday for writing about Becky in her blog? Yeah, she got dooced.

Source: Jennifer, Feb 26, 2004

Seen elsewhere:

• NPR: Digital Culture: Firings Raise Questions of Blogger Freedoms.
  
• BBC: Looming pitfalls of work blogs.
• NevOn: Don't Be Dooced in 2005. "dooce dodging"
• Wagner's Weblog: A review of dooced bloggers by cause.
  
• bizgirl - international librarian of mystery: Three posts on being dooced. Read the dozens of comments.
• Heather B. Armstrong's Dooce.com dooced archive: the posts the led to and followed Heather being fired.
  

The Blog Business Summit invites the greedy to blog, and bloggers to cash in. The same medium that's a window into cultures, the minds of people everywhere, the basis for a global community is being pimped for its ability to make your no-name business Googleworthy, to make you famous, rich, popular, secure, with little effort. And without a heart. See you there.

EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND - Lampoon your boss and you might get away with it. Malign the company, and it's brand, and find yourself filing for unemployment. See the Woolamaloo Gazette for more about Waterstone's treatment. I'm sure this noisy dismissal produces great press for the posh bookseller.