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Intern? Bloggers Need Not Apply

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the keep-off-the-blog-sign dept.

westlake writes "Short, funny, and to the point, a good read from the NYT about the realities of blogging in the corporate world." From the article: "Most experienced employees know: Thou Shalt Not Blab About the Company's Internal Business. But the line between what is public and what is private is increasingly fuzzy for young people comfortable with broadcasting nearly every aspect of their lives on the Web, posting pictures of their grandmother at graduation next to one of them eating whipped cream off a woman's belly. For them, shifting from a like-minded audience of peers to an intergenerational, hierarchical workplace can be jarring."

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  1. Is this relevant? by Embedded+Geek · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    posting pictures of their grandmother at graduation next to one of them eating whipped cream off a woman's belly.

    This is Slashdot, people. This is an experience that is absoultely unrelated to anyone that views this website.

    I mean, I only got 8 tickets to graduation. You think gram ranks above the guys from the local LINUX group and my WoW guild?

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  2. I blame JenniCam by SubRosa · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You think in 10 years she'll have problems? :) I wonder how her career is doing these days, anyway.

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  3. mhmm... by niteice · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    FIRED for having a blog


    :P

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  4. What about countermeasures? by Marsmensch · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I think we all realize there is a common thread in all of these issues regarding blogs, myspace, et al. It is that there are cases where people have cast something out to the internet and wish they could rein it in again. Obviously they can't, but what about obscuring it and making it harder to find? Is there some way to populate google's results with new stuff about yourself so as to bury the embarassing content?

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