Ivan on Employer Intervention

Singapore Librarian Ivan Chew blogs under the handle of Rambling Librarian, and this post shows why it's a good name.  But, if you care about employer--employee blogging issues, it's worth the read.  If his superiors ordered him to stop blogging, he'd be sad, disappointed and angry.  But like all employees, at the end of the day, he'd have only two choices...

http://ramblinglibrarian.blogspot.com/2005/04/thinking-aloud-blogging-allowed-when.html

Comments

[Steven Streight aka Vaspers the Grate]

I'm in a hurry, so I didn't follow your link, I'm trying to soften and sweeten my bad self so as to not alienate others.

It's that "aggressive jerk vs. passive wimp" dilemma. How I admire powerful but diplomatic champions of justice, truth, and goodness. maybe someday...

But wanted to input this: we Americans, British, Western world bloggers have no clue as to what some of our fellow bloggers go through.

Blog or Die? Hell, sometimes it is "Blog and Die" or "Blog and Go to Prison".

In some countries, you criticize a certain religion or political group, and down you go. Never seen or heard of again. I think many of you know exactly what I refer to, so I needn't name names here, or get real specific.

This is BS of the most smelly variety.

I hate oppression, mind control, thought policing, tyranny, dictatorship, theological domineering, all of which come from fear of independence and non-conformity.

When it comes to an employer, it is different, however.

I believe the employer needs a unified and coherent message, not the old school broadcast garbage, but the Al Ries/Jack Trout brand image, positioning idea.

So I think, as far as I understand him, that I agree with Mark Cuban.

[shel]

Thanks Steve. Your kinder, gentler, passive wimp side makes sense .

[Jozef Imrich]

Greetings S & R

Might be useful for that extra footnote as the story is hot off the press:

University of New Hampshire loses job over blog post via Blog Herald