Monday, July 11th, 2005, 3:13 am
The Blogging Downside
Filed under: Martha Irvine of Associated Press writes about the price of telling too much over the Internet (via Yahoo):
…putting one’s life online can have a price. A few bloggers, for instance, have been fired for writing about work on personal online journals. And Maya Marcel-Keyes, daughter of conservative politician Alan Keyes, discovered the trickiness of providing personal details online when her discussions on her blog about being a lesbian became an issue during her father’s recent run for a U.S. Senate seat in Illinois (he made anti-gay statements during the campaign)…
…Some also speculate that more scandalous blog entries — especially those about partying and dating exploits — will have ramifications down the road…
I have noticed a few bloggers who fear nothing they publish. One has to remember that blogs do not have to lead to personal discussions. This is perhaps one of the advantages of technical blogs where opinions expressed are about products or companies, seldom about individual people. The mentioning of names is still a true danger.
