Message of the day, beware of what you say on a blog, it may come back to haunt you…
Freedom of speech redefined by blogs
By Bill Schackner, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
“In another generation, these students would have simply been users of a computer,” Dr. Jerz said. “Now, they are co-creators of the Internet.”
That is both good and bad.
“I remind students that their blogs are public,” he said. “Someday, they’ll be in a job applicant pool, and a potential employer will run their name through Google, and the angry ranting Web log they wrote at age 17 will turn up.”
By all accounts, there has been exponential growth in the number of blogs, where people post everything from vacation photos to amateurish poetry to scathing political commentary, often with frequent updates and room for others to post responses. There are almost 24 million blogs, nearly double the number from five months ago, with 70,000 new blogs created daily, according to Technorati, a San Francisco-based Web site that tracks them.
Maybe it’s no surprise, given how empowering it can be to have one’s own thoughts transported instantly across the globe. But once there, they become fodder for anyone who is inclined to turn an author’s words against him.
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