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March 19, 2004

Why do people give up weblogs?

Giles Turnbull asked various people why they gave up blogs.

The various responses are fascinating... My favorite: "General sense of despair with: a) myself, b) the internet population in general."

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Posted by zephoria at March 19, 2004 2:12 PM | TrackBack

Comments (3)

Adam:

Or how about this... potential employers Google me, find my blog, and:
- Don't like what I have to say.
- Figure I have too much time on my hands.
- Worry about me blogging company secrets if I get hired.

I recently had a very unpleasant experience with my blog coming up in a job interview, as seen by this entry here on blogging and privacy.

I'm undecided what I'm going to do with my blog at this point. I'm thinking that I may start an anonymous LiveJournal for my personal / controversial thoughts, and just blog bland or uncontroversial-but-informative stuff on my public blog with my name on it. Or maybe one blog for my friends and family (here's what I did this week), another for rants, and one for professional musings.

Aggggh!

It just becomes all to complicated at this point, and then I ask myself: DON'T I have better things to do?

Adam:

Or how about this... potential employers Google me, find my blog, and:
- Don't like what I have to say.
- Figure I have too much time on my hands.
- Worry about me blogging company secrets if I get hired.

I recently had a very unpleasant experience with my blog coming up in a job interview, as seen by this entry here on blogging and privacy.

I'm undecided what I'm going to do with my blog at this point. I'm thinking that I may start an anonymous LiveJournal for my personal / controversial thoughts, and just blog bland or uncontroversial-but-informative stuff on my public blog with my name on it. Or maybe one blog for my friends and family (here's what I did this week), another for rants, and one for professional musings.

Aggggh!

It just becomes all to complicated at this point, and then I ask myself: DON'T I have better things to do?

Liz:

I got an interview this week, simply because of my blog. This is the way I feel, here I am, this is me. I will not be your companies robot, I have my own passions and thoughts and I won't pretend otherwise. As an employer, I would want an office full of creative bloggers. I might blog on their time? Spare me, like they aren't researching their upcoming vacation plans with their door shut. If some "boss" can't handle that, then *I* don't want too work for them and I believe it is they, who need to get a life. Apparently, as a blogger, I have one and its there for you too see.