MY BLOG OR MY JOB
MY BLOG OR MY JOB
Last night I had dinner with a few of New LLP’s summer interns. At some point in the evening, one of them mentioned that he had published X,Y or Z on his “weblog.” The conversation went on for a few paces after that, until a lull when I asked him what his blog was called.
He paused and I could watch as his face went through the stages of a blogger with a real job: 1. Oh, colleague knows what blogs are
2. Have I written anything about the job lately?
3. Dammit.
4. But… I would get a hit.
5. I do like hits.
He then sheepishly told me the site name, with the caveat that the humor was a “little blue,” so he didn’t usually like work people visiting. I explained that I understood because I had started one 8 months ago (gosh, time does fly), but then I jumped right to number 5 and told him the url.
Anyway, I’ve got to go now and erase all negative references to New LLP! 
June 11th, 2004 at 4:02 pm
I bet he had to do the same. It’s tough to be honest in your blog, no one at my job knows about my blog and I’m going to keep it that way.
June 11th, 2004 at 6:50 pm
i will deny that i have a blog to my dying day, that is why i use an alais, if i ever run for political office i can’t claim anything on my blog.
June 11th, 2004 at 8:10 pm
So I see from Spot On today that you, too, will miss Ronnie Man. Oh, how I wish I could summon up just a little wistful nostalgia for those greedy, greedy days gone by! :>)
June 11th, 2004 at 8:34 pm
If you work for a US Senator and have a sex-filled blog, I recommend you delete it. Just a random thought.
(came here from Spot On)
June 11th, 2004 at 9:31 pm
How brave of you, Dawn. I am all for separation of Blog and Job.
June 11th, 2004 at 9:44 pm
So, are you linking to it or what?
June 13th, 2004 at 7:42 pm
no because he doesn’t use an alias and I don’t want to be tracked through it.
June 13th, 2004 at 9:25 pm
ah.
June 14th, 2004 at 3:13 pm
It’s always a tough call whether to tell people… I rarely go out of my way to bring it up, but I wouldn’t lie about it if people asked me.