Mathemagenic

Robert Scoble comments on the story of a UK blogger in France being fired for blogging.

As usual, the things I find interesting are not on the topic, but around it - this time it's about the role of a blogger's manager:

If your boss doesn’t know you’re doing it, that should set off alarm bells right there. Talking online WILL get back to your boss. Unless you are so freaking careful to make sure you stay anonymous (like MiniMicrosoft, Microsoft’s anonymous blogger, has so far). This person obviously didn’t stay anonymous enough. It’s why I don’t advise anyone try the anonymous route: either be straight up with your boss and everyone, or stay off the Internet. 

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Anytime you are identifyable with your company you’ve gotta be professional about your behavior. It’s why at Microsoft we said the policy was 'be smart.' That roughly translated to 'don’t piss off your boss.'

Of course, the point is where to draw the line: telling your boss about all your activities online doesn't make sense and the boundary between blogging about personal life and work is often sooo blurred...

Recovering from the heat and intensive human contact of Cambridge and London. Next to the time with friends and a tiny bit of sightseeing we went to Microsoft Research Socio-Digital Systems group, e-mint event on communities and blogs with Nancy White and Headshift.

Some things to remember:

• how people get into blogging <- don't skip legitimate peripheral participation
• archiving as identity construction in To have and to hold: exploring the personal archive
• Nancy's three types of blog communities: person-centric, topic-centric/distributed, "walled" (see also more detailed notes by David Wilcox )
• see what comes out of interviews by Robin Hamman
• all kinds of things on peripheral awareness, its effects and their intentional enrichment, connecting ambient knowledge thinking and bunnies of guys at Headshift, peripheral ink display and other cool tools of Socio-Digital Systems and my own thinking on unexpected knowledge sharing
• what if you job is about connecting the dots?

Hmm, this post seems to escape categorisation...