The Electronic Frontier Foundation<\/a> has posted a This is an extremely useful and important topic. Who knows, if \n Blogs are like personal telephone calls crossed with newspapers. They’re If you blog, there are no guarantees you’ll attract a readership of thousands. We found out about the EFF guidelines from the ed-tech Oh, yeah? The Dowbrigade has assiduously avoided blogging about specific from Electronic The Electronic Frontier Foundation has posted a set of blogging guidelines. This is a topic we have been kicking around at the Berkman Blogger’s Meetings. The EFF Guidelines are more accurately a guide to how to blog without losing your job; in … Continue reading ![](\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/efflogo.jpg\")
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\n set of blogging guideline<\/a>s. This
\n is a topic we have been kicking around at the Berkman
\n Blogger’s Meetings<\/a>. The
\n EFF Guidelines are more accurately a guide to how to blog without losing
\n your job; in other words, how to blog anonymously.<\/p>\n
\n we had followed the advice contained in this guide the Dowbrigade might
\n by now have been named to a powerful position in the Bush administration,
\n Ambassador to Bhutan, perhaps, or Sub secretary of State for Ethnobotany.
\n Who knows how many lucrative opportunities have flown the coop when potential
\n employers Googled Dowbrigade after searching for our authors on-line
\n CV. Which links to the blog, of course, obviating any serious attempt
\n at anonymity.<\/p>\n\n
\n the perfect tool for sharing your favorite chocolate mousse recipe
\n with friends–or for upholding the basic tenets of democracy by letting
\n the public know that a corrupt government official has been paying
\n off your boss.<\/p>\n
\n But at least a few readers will find your blog, and they may be the people you’d
\n least want or expect. These include potential or current employers, coworkers,
\n and professional colleagues; your neighbors; your spouse or partner; your family;
\n and anyone else curious enough to type your name, email address or screen name
\n into Google or Feedster and click a few links.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\n insider<\/a>, an excellent
\n source for blogging in education news, where Tom Hoffman notes: "I
\n have very mixed feelings about teachers blogging anonymously about their
\n classroom experiences. The seems to be becoming standard operating procedure
\n on the web in the past year."<\/p>\n
\n students during the past year. When forced to, by circumstance,
\n we would resort to clever subterfuge like "I wanted to strangle that
\n spoiled brat from a Central American country with a canal." Can’t be
\n too careful, or too clever. We do feel a bit more confident writing about
\n EX-students, and the further they get from our active tutelage the less
\n inhibited we feel. Don’t worry Ricardo, we’ll send that money soon.<\/p>\n
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