Are they censoring employee blogs?. Unbelievable.
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March 7th, 2005 | Blogging
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Hi Mikel,
I posted some more details on my weblog if you are interested in learning more about what happened.
I found this incident disturbing, despite Niall’s apology/retraction. I am inclined to side with Kottke’s original take on this; there is a lot of irony that a company who makes its living off of blogs would want its employees to submit their personal blog content for corporate editorial review. Viewed in a cynical light this policy is dictatorial; viewed in a charitable light it is a public relations blunder.
Yet…I am of two minds on this. Niall has obviously identified himself as a Technocrati employee, so anything he writes about the web — which is a large part of his life — can concern the members of his company.
I don’t know if there is a single answer to this issue, but it is certainly one that is facinating and that we will be seeing more and more of.
In case readers arrive here directly from a search engine, I want to link to my post on March 8 with clarifications and updates. I don’t think Kottke’s headline was exactly fair, and to his credit he has changed it. I try not to edit posts to change their meaning after the fact, so I’ll leave this one as-is, while at the same time pointing to the more recent - and fairer - entry.
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