MrDave’s (David Yack) Blog! - Blogging Without Getting Burned (from: PubSub: Scoble)
http://blog.davidyack.com/archive/2005/04/14/313.aspx
Weblog: MrDave’s (David Yack) Blog!Source: Blogging Without Getting Burned
Link: http://blog.davidyack.com/archive/2005/04/14/313.aspx
InternetNews recently wrote up an article on suggestions for blogging without getting yourself fired or losing your best friend.< ?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
One the thought leaders mentioned was The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) who published a guide on how to avoid stupidity (they of course worded it differently). Most the time I agree with EFF on their cause however, their guide is just simply useless advice for something that first of all less structure adds to better content, and further more rules and regulations defeats the free form content that you find on blogs.
Lets see Post Anonymously they say….Does anyone really read anonymous content? Content posted by a credible person that names themself with their comments is much more credible.
They do make a good point that we often forget that while First Amendment provides for freedom of speech it does NOT shield those of the consequences of their actions - I had a similar conversation with our 11 year old recently…
Shel Isreal who’s writing a book with Robert Scoble from Microsoft chimed in with his advice, which is a shorter version of EFF’s ”Don’t do anything stupid on the blog.”
My version is even simpler “Don’t say anything stupid in a public forum“.
Why do we all feel the need to re-invent things everytime there is a new communication medium - Blogging while new and cool is just another way of public communication - This is not new information and these are NOT new issues - Everyone from politicians to company exec’s get in trouble when they make inappropriate comments in a public venue or “on the record“
A good way to think of what you put on your blog is consider it the same if you received a call for comment from someone at the wsj or cnn.com. Which by the way works well for public speaking, article submissions and many other things that could get broadcast to a large audience!