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Sunday, March 6th, 2005Flight attendant Ellen Simonetti and former Google employee Mark Jen have more in common than their love of blogging: They both got fired over it.
Simonetti had posted suggestive photographs of herself in uniform, while Jen speculated online about his employer’s finances. In neither case were their bosses happy when they found out.
Though many companies have Internet guidelines that prohibit visiting porn sites or forwarding racist jokes, few of the policies directly cover blogs, or Web journals, particularly those written outside of work hours.
This is why I would never blog about job—directly or indirectly. An acquaintance of mine (I can’t remember who) once told me that some employers have recently begun the practice of Googling the names of interviewees before hiring them to see if they can learn anything about who they are and/or where they’ve been… Certainly, that must include learning if they have a blog.
If true, that would put me in a very tough position wouldn’t it? I notice my name gets Googled quite a bit as it is because I notice referrals to this site from people Googling my name.
Perhaps I should have started blogging under a pseudonym?
B4B To Meet MSNBC
Friday, March 4th, 2005Mark Noonan of Blogs For Bush will be appearing on MSNBC’s “Connected: Coast To Coast” Monday at 5pm eastern time… Check it out.
Brock’s Crock
Thursday, March 3rd, 2005Media Matters for America, the group headed by conservative turned liberal writer David Brock, has changed course on its stated association with billionaire liberal financier George Soros.
After initially claiming on Dec. 1, 2004 that “neither Media Matters nor its president and CEO David Brock has received any money from Soros or from any organization with which he is affiliated,” the group is no longer disavowing any connection with groups “affiliated” with Soros.
GodBlogCon
Tuesday, March 1st, 2005There’s growing chatter in the blogosphere about an upcoming GodBlogCon.
While I’m sure the intent is not to be a congregation of conservative bloggers, I would guess they’ll represent a large portion of the attendees. SmartChristian Blog refers to it “The first ever Christian Blogosphere Convention”
So why isn’t it called ChristianBloggerCon or ChristBlogCon or some variation thereof? As a conservative Jewish blogger, I find it troubling that conservatives have trademarked “God” as Christian.
It’s not that I’m offended, I just feel that if it’s going to be called “GodBlogCon” any blogger who believes in a higher power and who blogs about their faith—whatever it is—should not feel as if they would be excluded because they are not Christian.
UPDATE: Political Teen has a video of Jeff Jarvis plugging GodBlogCon on MSNBC…
… and note to Jarvis… enough with the “pajamas” cliche…
UPDATE, 3/3/05: This is what I’m talking about…
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