How To Blog - And Keep Your Job

Posted on Monday, July 24 at 08:59 by jensonj
With guidelines hazy on where the line can be drawn between an individual's private online writings and their public work persona, more such cases can be expected. So how should individuals - and companies - pick their way safely through the potential minefield of blogging? Struan Robertson, a technology lawyer for Pinsent Masons and editor of Out-Law.com, a website offering legal advice on internet issues, admits it is a difficult path to tread. TOP TIPS FOR SAFE BLOGGING Remember you can never be entirely sure who is reading Don't rely on a pseudonym to preserve anonymity Be aware of the dangers of defamation Respect copyright and intellectual property laws Avoid jokes which could provoke a sexual or racial harassment claim Story from BBC NEWS: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/europe/5195714.stm

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  1. Mon Jul 24, 2006 6:05 pm
    Excellent post. Would however extend this beyound "blogging". Participating to the free new medias (forums, wikis, podcasts, Internet Radios, etc...)and citizen medias such as Vive similarly endangers your job, Client base, contracts, etc... That's a heck of a way to disengage citizens from their democracy. <p> Most stuff that disrupt the "ruling class" will be fought back by that ruling class by isolating that person that participates to the new medias. This situation is particularly in your face amongst minorities and their ruling class as covered in an earlier artcile published on Vive: <a href="http://www.vivelecanada.ca/article.php/20041103201706366">La Rectitude: une Menace au Multiculturalisme</a> <p> You will notice that the mainstream medias will not allow people to express selves under an alias. That says it all IMO on how the ruling class will punish offending ideas to the status quo. It is quite worrysome when the State fully supports that ruling class. <p>---<br>"We are all in this together somehow, some more than others somehow"



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