Posted on 06/16/2005 6:00:44 AM PDT by Momaw Nadon
Edited on 06/16/2005 6:05:43 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
Paul Simon said it, "Everything looks worse in black and white."
Put it in print but you pay the price,
so publish it once but edit at least twice.
At the local women attorney's association meeting this past week, we had a speaker on how to promote your business. One of the things she recommended was a blog, or as they call it for lawyers, blawg. But discretion is advised.
Blogs are so stupid. Free Republic is all I need.
All I can say it's "common Sense."
Rule 1: On working hours, you should be WORKING!
Rule 2: You have no right to even mention your company's NAME!. You must respect the Company's privacy as well as your coworker's.
I am sure we can keep adding rules, but these 2 are basic.
HAHAHAHAHAHA. Shades of Henry Ford
You work for us... WE OWN YOU.
Link only? What terrorists.
Can you imagine folks posting on FR running for elected office, and the opposition finds their posting name and search for all the postings and responses?
In many states including mine, the employer can basically hire and fire at will. As long as the decision is not shown to be discriminatory the employee has little recourse unless they are working under a written contract or labor agreement.
The left over dregs of the 60's "do your own thing" and the 80's and 90's belief that everyone is "special" self-centered narcissistic egos belief that every minute aspect of their pathetic little lives should be documented.
Most people's "thing" is quite unremarkable and should be kept to oneself.
Most blogs are only read by relatives and friends. A lot of them talk on the blog as if they think you already know who this or that person is.
Many, even most, of them are; however, there are a few good ones out there. The biggest problem is that so people write them as if they are expecting people to read them and care about what they think. The scary problem is that there are some people that do read them and care what these other people think.
I have no problem with blogs in general, although it was years before I would use the word "blog", I insisted on calling them "web logs", because "blog" just sounds stupid. (Hey, Jack, you're getting all blogged down over there, aint ya?)
The first blogs I used to read were actually journals by writers and businesses that I kept tabs on. Basically, they started updating their "What's New" pages more frequently because visitors got irritated by seeing the same "News" items for a month at a time.
Check out Steve Jackson Games and you'll note that their "blog" has been going for 10 years or so now.
And I was doing a blog before the term was used, except I called it a web magazine, but it was really just the opinions that I wanted to express that didn't fit the format of my joke pages. I couldn't believe when people emailed me that they were upset that I decided to take a break after Clinton left office. (I'm still on that break.)
I did try my hand at a secret blog that no one knew existed so you couldn't read it
(Somehow over 800 people did find it, according to the counter.)
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Maybe Jim Rob can check the ownership of some of the blogs pimped by the blog pimps on Free Republic and drop an email to the real owners of the servers and sites.
Many that have been pimped recently are very vile anti GW and Republican sites.
I would hope that if I ran for office my speeches would reflect, if not the actual language, the same spirit with which I post on FreeRepublic. Of course, I didn't say I would expect to win if I ran for office.
Really, I have no interest in the fact that you need to write several webpages worth of rant on the issue that you nearly met a clelbrity one time, or that some college sweetheart dumped you for a future Enron board member.
I worked with a fruitcake who would not only rant against the president non-stop, but "as soon as he had time" would run against him and "do things right".
He is currently (surprise!) on medical leave.
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