tribulations of a blogger

dad sent me this..and since nothing really happened to me today....that i feel like sharing...

This was pubished in the Calgary Herald on Monday and copied in the national press on April 02, 2007....

Paris secretary and blogger Catherine Sanderson has won her wrongful dismissal case, but other bloggers should not take the ruling to mean it's carte blanche in cyberspace.

Sanderson, who blogged under the pseudonym "petite anglaise," was careful to keep her employer's name and her own under wraps, even as thousands of people logged on to her blog daily to read about the latest in her love life and at her office. She was fired after posting photos of herself on the site, leading her employer, an accounting firm, to feel the company had been maligned. They accused her of blogging from the office, damaging the firm's reputation and sneaking out for a tryst on company time.

Now that an industrial tribunal has ordered the company to pay Sanderson more than $100,000, it would seem that anything goes in the blogosphere. Wrong. Discretion is still the better part of valour. An older generation might lament the passing of an age of modesty and privacy, in which people didn't feel the need to tell all to thousands of strangers.

However, that attitude is passe in a cyberspace world where the number of personal blogs ranges in the hundreds of millions. People are inevitably going to post their thoughts and the storiesof their daily lives on lime, but they need to be cognizant of the fact that some rules still apply.

Any time one is making a personal story public, there is always a danger that someone else will get hurt, and that the hurt will end up in a courtroom.

The ruling went in Sanderson's favour this time; the next no-holds barred blogger may not be so lucky.


...thanks dad.

:)