Don't Blog

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.
  

phil : 1/24/2005 11:38:00 AM.