208B: Blogs as a liability

I'm starting to become more concerned with blogs being a potential hiring liability... now, since I plan on being in academia until I rot or dry up, that's not a huge concern of mine. But Kevin over at the Tech Law Advisor points to Anonymous Lawyer's comments on how this is a big problem for professions like lawyers ("Dangers of Non-Anonymous Blawging").

After reading this, I think I finally get what danah is talking about when she says that "people don't get persistence on the net." I thought it was just a matter of security through obscurity at first... that is, people aren't popular so they don't have a lot of eyes on their public blogs. But that's not it... it is more about the fact that determined individuals and organizations (like this one and this one) will undoubtedly record everything that they can (that is public). And you can't take this stuff back or blast it out of existence as the Anonymous Lawyer's associate attempted to.

Posted by joebeone at Marzo 30, 2004 08:16 AM