Whistle Blower s Stop


Whistle Blower's Stop

One of the safest ways to voice the truth is to do so anonymously. With blogs, anonymity isn't necessarily easier or more foolproof, but it does allow for more people to read your thoughts before you have to pull the news and hit the trail. This section helps you decide whether anonymity is the best choice for your blog.

Blog Anonymously

http://www.eff.org/Privacy/Anonymity/blog-anonymously.php

The EFF's page on anonymous blogging provides a number of suggestions for keeping your online exposés anonymous.

Tor for Bloggers

http://tor.eff.org/index.html

This software provides anonymity for bloggers by routing submissions through multiple onion routers. This is not a blog but an actual software site. The origin of this free software (Office of U.S. Naval Research), however, should give free-speech advocates pause....

Invisiblog

http://invisiblog.com/

For blogs that demand the ultimate in privacy, take advantage of Invisiblog's mixmaster technology every time you post. This is an anonymous, encrypted remailer network that randomly moves your blog posts through the Net. Tracing anything back to you is difficult, but as you can imagine, not impossible.

Anonymizer

http://www.anonymizer.com/

A website you surf through to conceal your computer's IP address and/or location. For a decent chance at privacy, you should post through Anonymizer to the Invisiblog network...from an Internet café...in Salina.

Avoid Getting Googled

For bloggers who don't really want to draw attention to their sites, there's the option of preventing major search engines such as Google and Yahoo! from listing your page in search results. You can create a special file in your blog that tells these search services to ignore your domain. The file, called a robots text file or robots.txt, can be obtained free from Web Tool Centralhttp://www.webtoolcentral.com/

However, this method isn't always successful, and you can try alternative tricks to avoid search engine scanning. We cover some of these tricks in Part III, "Building Your Own Blog."

How Not To Get Fired Because of Your Blog

Surely you've read about the flight attendant who lost her job for posting not-so-suggestive photos of herself on airplanesin uniform of course. If not, then you must not know that blogs are deadly to a job if mishandled. This section lists a few blogs of the dispossessed and also some advice on how to prevent the same thing from happening to you.

Queen of the Sky

http://queenofsky.journalspace.com/

Can getting fired make you famous? Yes, if you're a blonde, twentysomething, flight attendant here in the United States. Read the blog that made the Queen of the Sky fall from grace but also garner a book deal.

Blogger.com

http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=661&topic=-1

Let Blogger (the biggest web log hosting site) help you help yourself, namely, CYA when talking about work.

Biased BBC

http://biased-bbc.blogspot.com/

Are you hypnotized by the BBC's swirling logos? Does its news scream "taste" while comforting you in warm fuzzies? Even if you believe firmly in the public news ideal (the BBC, duh), this blogger would hope you'd see the Beeb's other side.

Los AlamosThe Real Story

http://lanl-the-real-story.blogspot.com/

Employees of Los Alamos laboratory who were censored by their own newspaper decided to start a blog and communicate what was happening at the labs.

Blog Cautionary Tales

Dooce.com

http://www.dooce.com

Heather Armstrong used to work in Los Angeles as a web designer. Then, here, we'll let her tell you:

"I started this website in February 2001. A year later I was fired from my job for this website because I had written stories that included people in my workplace. My advice to you is BE YE NOT SO STUPID. Never write about work on the Internet unless your boss knows and sanctions the fact that YOU ARE WRITING ABOUT WORK ON THE INTERNET. If you are the boss, however, please don't be a b**** and talk with your hands. And when you order Prada online, please don't talk about it out loud, you rotten w****."

Heather now lives in Utah where she and her husband raise their young daughter. But she still runs one of the most moving and amusing blogs ever.

Jolie in NYC

http://jolienyc.blogspot.com/

Nadine Haobsh maintained an anonymous blog called Jolie in NYC that provided insider dish on the beauty industry and the women's magazines that service it. In July 2005, the New York Post revealed her true identity as a Beauty Editor for Ladies' Home Journal. Fortunately, Nadine had just resigned from the magazine to take a new position at Seventeen. Unfortunately, Seventeen withdrew its offer after the Post story came out because it wasn't comfortable with the topic of her blog. During an interview with MSNBC on July 25, 2005, Nadine said "The thing that I think was wrong was that I didn't come clean with my bosses from the beginning. I think that if I told them that I was writing the blog, I could've prevented all of this....The best course of action is to not write about the industry you work in because things can get back to your bosses."

Bluegirl24NY

http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.ListAll&friendID=13393204&Mytoken=20050709065933ML

A copyeditor at Random House anonymously blogged about her workplace and didn't bother to disguise the name of her company or details that could reveal her true identity. Unfortunately, her bosses were a lot smarter than she was, read her blog, and gave her the boot.




Blogosphere(c) Best of Blogs
Blogosphere: Best of Blogs
ISBN: 0789735261
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 138

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