{"id":232,"date":"2005-02-15T14:13:22","date_gmt":"2005-02-15T20:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/?p=232"},"modified":"2005-02-15T14:13:22","modified_gmt":"2005-02-15T20:13:22","slug":"the-economist-on-blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/archives\/232","title":{"rendered":"The Economist on Blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That bastion of free trade economics and British pithy humor has an article about corporate blogging: <a href='http:\/\/economist.com\/people\/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3644293'>Face Value<\/a>.  It focuses on Scoble and Microsoft, but also mentions other bloggers, including <a href='http:\/\/blogs.sun.com\/roller\/page\/jonathan\/'>Jonathan Schwarz<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s defintely a fine line between blogging and revealing company secrets.  <a href='http:\/\/99zeros.blogspot.com\/'>Mark Jen<\/a> certainly <a href='http:\/\/99zeros.blogspot.com\/2005\/02\/official-story-straight-from-source.html'>found that out<\/a>.  The quick, informal, personal nature of blogging, combined with its worldwide reach and googles cache, mean that it poses a new challenge to corporations who want to be &#8216;on message&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>It also exposes a new risk for employees and contractors.  I blog about all kinds of technologies, including some that I&#8217;m paid to use.  At what point does the knowledge I gain from a client&#8217;s project become mine, so that I can post about it?  Or does it ever?  (Obviously, trade secrets are off limits, but if I discover a better way to use <a href='http:\/\/www.almaer.com\/blog\/archives\/000563.html'>Spring<\/a> or a solution for a common <a href='http:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/weblog\/archives\/000164.html'>struts exception<\/a>, where&#8217;s the line?) Those required NDAs can be quite chilling to freedom of expression and I have at least one friend who has essentially stopped blogging due to the precarious nature of his work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That bastion of free trade economics and British pithy humor has an article about corporate blogging: Face Value. It focuses on Scoble and Microsoft, but also mentions other bloggers, including [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}