Blog profile: Brands, bridges and bushfires: "As recent US cases indicate, some enterprises have sought to crimp comment made by employees on a personal basis - an issue that we have explored in discussing online free speech. Those efforts reflect community and judicial acceptance of limits on employee statements in newspapers, private newsletters and other fora. They are based on assumptions that staff have some obligations to the particular enterprise, whether the blog bears that organisation's logo or not."
Whilst free speech is desirable in an organisation, there are practical limits.
Sunday, 7 October 2007
Blog profile: Brands, bridges and bushfires
Forbes.com - Attack of the blogs
Forbes.com - Magazine Article: "Web logs are the prized platform of an online lynch mob spouting liberty but spewing lies, libel and invective. Their potent allies in this pursuit include Google and Yahoo."
If you're thinking that it's ok to not keep yourself up-to-date about what people are saying about your business, you probably want to read this article.
Rebecca Blood :: Weblogs: A History And Perspective
Rebecca Blood :: Weblogs: A History And Perspective: "Blogger, Pitas, and all the rest have given people with little or no knowledge of HTML the ability to publish on the web: to pontificate, remember, dream, and argue in public, as easily as they send an instant message."
Rebecca Blood :: Weblogs: A History And Perspective
Rebecca Blood :: Weblogs: A History And Perspective: "While weblogs had always included a mix of links, commentary, and personal notes, in the post-Blogger explosion increasing numbers of weblogs eschewed this focus on the web-at-large in favor of a sort of short-form journal. These blogs, often updated several times a day, were instead a record of the blogger's thoughts: something noticed on the way to work, notes about the weekend, a quick reflection on some subject or another."
Open Business speaks with Tim O'Reilly
OpenBusiness spoke with Tim O’Reilly about the evolution of the Web and its most current trends, which are commonly labeled as Web 2.0. In September 2005, Tim wrote a seminal piece that presented many of the aspects of Web 2.0 and now surrounds much of the buzz around a new generation of internet applications. In the interview, he re-emphasizes the most important points of this development, talks about the evolutionary relationship between open & free and shares his vision of bionic systems that combine human and computational intelligence.Read the full interview...OpenBusiness » Blog Archive » People Inside & Web 2.0: An Interview with Tim O’Reilly
Saturday, 6 October 2007
Lessig on corruption in US politics
Social commentator and author, Lawrence Lessig, says in this video what many of us have believed for some time now, that, whilst there are many genuine people in politics, all too often, the need to raise funds for campaigns to stay in office is causing many decisions to be made for the wrong reason - money. It's worth watching.
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