US blogger fired by her employer after putting pictures of herself in her uniform on her website. Not a terrible crime, you would think, but if you actually look at the blog itself and the images, which show her with her blouse unbuttoned to reveal her bra, and then consider the corporate image of the airline in a nation that is still largely prudish and conservative, then Delta’s decision is hardly surprising. Bloggers must continue to beware of their employer’s image and reputation if they write about their work on their site. Even those of us who are self-employed still must be considerate of our clients and suppliers.
Party
Keep checking the webloggers’ party page – it looks like a plan is coming together.
What blogs are really about
Mo returns to more traditional blogging style – a good thing I think. I’ve never been convinced by the idea of a separate list of links on this site and have never implemented one. I find the practice that some adopt of putting their "recent links" lists in tiny text particularly annoying and squint-inducing. But each to his/her own, I guess.
Party
There will be a webloggers’ end-of-year party. Fact. Webloggers can influence where and when it takes place by employing the FunJunkie editable page which can be found by clicking here. I intend to attend unless I’m moving house, getting married or doing some other reckless thing.
Conspiracy?
Ha!
From Boris Johnson’s shiny new weblog (which is clearly going to be the most avidly watched new blog of 2004 – eat your hearts out Belle de Jour and Wil Wheaton!) comes Boris’s sage advice to women who are experiencing difficult pregnancies – get on the teacups at Legoland. Utter class.
Up the rear
Meanwhile, over at wysiwyg, Steve worries about children’s television.
Quitter
Reuters covers Belle de Jour’s decision to stop updating her blog, one of the great interwebnet non-events of the year (second only to the Grauniad’s "best" blog competition, in my opinion – or do I sound bitter because I wasn’t shortlisted?).
Believe me, if ever I decide to quit, Anna Ford will talk about it as headline news at one o’clock on the Beeb. This is one of Britain’s longest-running blogs, after all.
(via LMG)
Growing pains
A blog about allotment gardening. Good stuff.
Flying over foreign territory
I’ve been at it again. Posting at Uborka. Sorry.