Blog At Your Own Risk
Blogging is a truly expressive method to communicate your thoughts and opinions on pretty much anything. The recent and anticipated growth of this phenomenom is undeniable.
Of course, with any truly expressive form of communication, there are risks and consequences to blurting things out. For sure you have seen disclaimers here and there from blog owners detaching their remarks and opinions from those of their employers. But sometimes, that's not enough, and a little bit of personal censorship is required..
CentralMX, a site dedicated to Macromedia Central, points to an article in the Salt Lake Tribune that talks aboutt the perils of blogging from an employees point of view:
Last October, he published in his blog a photo of a pallet of Apple Macintosh computers being delivered to Microsoft headquarters. The following week Hanscom was fired for allegedly violating a confidentiality agreement he had signed when Microsoft hired him.
On his blog, Hanscom admitted that he may have gone over the line by publishing the location where Microsoft receives shipments of high-value merchandise.
"The picture itself might have been permissible," he wrote, "but because I also mentioned that I worked at the MSCopy print shop, and which building it was in, it pushed me over the line."
So, the moral of the story: Watch Your Back, Check Over Your Shoulder, and Cover Your Ass.. We're Watching (tm)