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 My name is danah boyd and I'm a researcher at Microsoft Research New England and a Fellow at the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet and Society. I received my PhD from the School of Information at UC-Berkeley. I live in Boston, MA. Buzzwords in my world include: public/private, identity, context, youth culture, social network sites, social media. I use this blog to express random thoughts about whatever I'm thinking.
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Blogophobic CompaniesSomeone recently asked me if i knew of companies that are blogophobic (i.e. have fired/threatened to fire people for blogging). Today, i ran across a reader-generated list of Blogophobic Companies/Organizations which includes a link to bloggers who were fired. I don’t know how accurate any of it is… 3 comments to Blogophobic CompaniesLeave a Reply |
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Jeremy Wright, prolific technology blogger of ensight.org, was fired for his blog this week, for a post he says he made a year ago, from the Health Sciences Centre, Winnipeg’s major downtown hospital. I am meeting Jeremy for coffee tonight at 8, to find out a little bit more about what happened.
There are thousands of others that were fired because of their blog or someone elses blog in which they were mentioned. There are many that were fired and simply didn’t blog about it.
There is a common denominator in those firings – discretion. The wisdom to know what to talk about publicly and what to keep private.
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Finally, Major League Baseball’s union and owners have agreed to a drug testing policy bent on absolving the sport of steroid use (and, noted one Sportscenter talking head, the agreement came without giving anything back to the players). I’m inte…