How’d I miss this? Here’s an article – Exposed — from the May 25th, 2008 edition of the New York Times Magazine about one blogger’s experiences and the lines that you can cross while writing blogging, both personally and professionally. It covers some issues to keep in mind when writing in a forum that can be accessed far and wide.
[This article was also posted to my tech blog, Global Nerdy.]
3 replies on “Exposed”
Well, it certainly was a long post to say the same things over and over.
Joey, I’m really puzzled as to why you selected this piece — this 8000 word (I checked) piece of painfully boring, self-indulgent navel-gazing. Can we blame it on the Kool-Aid at MS?
What I found more interesting was the comments. One of the favourites was this: “I work with an educational program for indigent college students from rural and impoverished areas of Latin America who have their own heartbreaking stories of hardships and misery. Yet they are my inspiration because of their amazing spirit to succeed by working, studying, and volunteering for their community during all hours of the day. In fact their lives would make for an incredible blog any day. What a different world you have chosen for yourself. And what a shame.”
Can you at least summarize the key points to “keep in mind when writing in a forum that can be accessed far and wide.” I think we all have the common sense to know the part about “don’t poop where you eat”
@darryl: I guess I was in the mood for reading a “train wreck” story.
As for the Kool-Aid at Microsoft, I haven’t seen any at the Mississauga or Downtown Toronto offices. There’s loads of free Diet Coke, though.