Another blogger bites the dust after being fired for her blog. There’s no reason given for why she was fired, but speculation on a Metafilter discussion about it is that it seems like many of the blog’s postings were done during normal work hours, since there’s really nothing work-related as far as anyone can tell, and that her employer probably canned her for misuse of company time.

And while I do think that Blogebrity is correct in warning people to watch their backs, I don’t think it’s an issue with clueless employers. I think it’s the employees who are clueless (and fuck, I’m allowed to rag on them since I was fired for my page only a couple of months after Heather Armstrong became the first major blogger to be dooced). If you’re going to say anything work-related on your blog, make sure that you’re not giving out your URL to coworkers, and don’t do the shit from the office computers. Your bosses on not the complete technological dingleberries you assume they are. Employers know how to use the internet. They know how to Google people. The only thing that they may be guilty of at times is not knowing the difference between things you do on work time and things you do on personal time, but if you’re blogging from work when you’re supposed to be working, then you had it coming.

Jacob Robida, the hatchet-wielding attacker at a New Bedford gay bar, had a Myspace page. As if Myspace didn’t have enough issues lately.

While I’m a firm believer in the idea that what one posts to their website (or any other for that matter) on their own time should have no bearing on his/her employment, and while I was fired for running off my mouth - or keyboard, as the case may have been - and posting too much on my blog, I really have no sympathy for someone whose first post to his blog states “I shouldn’t be doing this” and then winds up without a job. He knew what he was doing would most likely be frowned upon, and he did it anyway.

From God’s Blog’s FAQ post:

“12. Why does everything (squirrel, rabbit, frog legs, etc.) taste like chicken?
I like chicken.”

This page just made me go all o.O and squint my face like >.<