racoma.com.phJ. Angelo Racoma on technology, economics, writing, problogging, and getting things done

Blogosphere updates:

I last posted on the various concerns bloggers are facing. Scanning through newsfeeds, I found an article on infoworld.com on steps employers are taking to monitor blog and email content, and I quote:

… three companies unveiled products that monitor messages to detect anything from inappropriate language to sending out proprietary corporate data.

WhatCounts demonstrated BlogUnit Series, a 1U

hardware device plus software that manages corporate blogs before they

are published.

The blog software is centrally controlled and can be linked to both

LDAP and Radius servers to control approvals before publishing,

content viewing, and broadcasting.

While this may only apply to corporate weblogs for now, it goes to show that firms are becoming more serious about considering blogging as a threat to keeping trade secrets. However, IMHO, firms should embrace blogging as a tool for active and innovative discussions and even marketing. But to strike a balance, they should also learn to effectively manage content and to draw up fair and explicit policies and guidelines on employees’ posting online. Otherwise, if both parties are kept in the grey, then conflicts would surely arise, just as in the case of the ex-employees of Google, Microsoft and even Delta Airways.

I guess one ideal scenario for a real blog addict would be to quit one’s day job to focus on publishing, just like Jason Kottke of kottke.org. If only revenues from blogging (adverts, donations) could sustain a family of four (and some debt servicing requirements, too ), this would be a welcome idea.

Newsflash from CNet News:

Iranian weblogger Arash Sigarchi yesterday received a 14-year prison sentence. A “revolutionary tribunal” in Gilan, northern Iran found him guilty of espionage and insulting the country’s leaders.

Talk about paranoid regimes!  The news item directs readers to the Committee to Protect Bloggers weblog.

• Tweet
• "&title=""">

Share: