Since I've been gone
Hey everyone. Well, it appears I've blog-faded yet again. It's kind of funny how these things sneak up on me...
Looking at my post queue on blogger.com, I have three posts that are saved as drafts. These are posts that I started writing but then thought it was better not to post those particular thoughts. Once I start censoring myself, it's usually downhill pretty quickly from there.
Around the same time as those posts, I was reminded by my boss that we shouldn't be blogging or having public myspace pages or any of that sort of thing. The company I work for is in a pretty sensitive industry and there are "activists" out there looking for any reason to nail us to the wall. I guess that a year or two ago a guy who was doing some consulting work for us got caught with a pretty ugly myspace page that ended up all over a few of these activist's blogs and resulted in us losing a contract.
For the past month or so, I've been thinking about how I want to deal with all of this. Should I pull my blog completely down? That was honestly what I was going to do until I remembered things like archive.org and Google's cache. The thing is, I've been outspoken on a number of topics all over the internet and that stuff is out there, like it or not.
I've done some searches on my name and this site doesn't come up in any of the first few pages, so at least I have a little anonymity there. I went in and changed my settings so that the blog doesn't show up in search results or the blogger directory. I'll probably switch my profile to private too. I'm really wishing I would've done like Waldo and Mickity and used some kind of pseudonym this whole time. I've worked in the online industry for the past 8 years...I should really know better.
For now I'm going to try to get back to regular blogging. Even though my employer probably wouldn't be very happy to find out I'm doing it, I think that any damaging info about me is already out there if someone chooses to engage in a little character assassination. If it starts getting a little too uncomfortable here, I'll shut this blog down and start up a completely anonymous one somewhere else. If that happens, send me an email and I'll let you know where I ended up.
In the meantime, thanks for sticking around and keeping up with what's going on in my life. :)
Looking at my post queue on blogger.com, I have three posts that are saved as drafts. These are posts that I started writing but then thought it was better not to post those particular thoughts. Once I start censoring myself, it's usually downhill pretty quickly from there.
Around the same time as those posts, I was reminded by my boss that we shouldn't be blogging or having public myspace pages or any of that sort of thing. The company I work for is in a pretty sensitive industry and there are "activists" out there looking for any reason to nail us to the wall. I guess that a year or two ago a guy who was doing some consulting work for us got caught with a pretty ugly myspace page that ended up all over a few of these activist's blogs and resulted in us losing a contract.
For the past month or so, I've been thinking about how I want to deal with all of this. Should I pull my blog completely down? That was honestly what I was going to do until I remembered things like archive.org and Google's cache. The thing is, I've been outspoken on a number of topics all over the internet and that stuff is out there, like it or not.
I've done some searches on my name and this site doesn't come up in any of the first few pages, so at least I have a little anonymity there. I went in and changed my settings so that the blog doesn't show up in search results or the blogger directory. I'll probably switch my profile to private too. I'm really wishing I would've done like Waldo and Mickity and used some kind of pseudonym this whole time. I've worked in the online industry for the past 8 years...I should really know better.
For now I'm going to try to get back to regular blogging. Even though my employer probably wouldn't be very happy to find out I'm doing it, I think that any damaging info about me is already out there if someone chooses to engage in a little character assassination. If it starts getting a little too uncomfortable here, I'll shut this blog down and start up a completely anonymous one somewhere else. If that happens, send me an email and I'll let you know where I ended up.
In the meantime, thanks for sticking around and keeping up with what's going on in my life. :)
posted by Jessica at
11:59 PM
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2 Comments:
Well I can understand, no one wants to lose a job in this precarious environment.
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Waldo, At
April 10, 2009 1:36 PM
Yeah. The thing is, if someone wants to go after me, there's already plenty of ammo for them out there. I can either live in fear of that or keep doing my thing and let the chips fall where they may.
For now, I'm going with the latter. I'll just try to be a little more careful about what personal details I put out there.
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Jessica, At
April 11, 2009 9:50 PM
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