Blogs Bad for Your Wealth?
Wired's running a not so strange story that may be something all you would be bloggers out there should take a look at. If you post from work and it's something your company doesn't like, don't be surprised if you get the ax.

"Ellen Simonetti, a flight attendant in Texas, said she was suspended without pay, then benefits, and subsequently fired, by Delta Airlines this fall. Allegedly, her release was for posting photos of herself in uniform on her blog, which contained a mix of fact and fiction, she said. She'd never mentioned Delta by name as her employer, Simonetti said, and once Delta contacted her about the photos, she removed them from her site."

"Michael Hanscom had an experience similar to Simonetti's. Last October, he was working on Microsoft's Redmond, Washington, campus as a temp contracted to Xerox. One day, he saw some then-new Power Mac G5 computers being unloaded on site, and, tickled by the idea that Microsoft would be using Apple hardware, he snapped a photo and uploaded it to his blog." Canned. (How's this for MS logic: "A number of Microsoft employees have blogs, and are supported in doing so as long as they follow the company's confidentiality agreement. A spokesperson said she couldn't say whether any Microsoft employees have been fired for blogging, because she couldn't say whether that was what happened in this instance.")

The problem is that few companies are geared up with a blogging policy, friendly or not. So, for the time being, they're pretty much free to do what they want. Be careful out there.

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