Writers Digest is looking for folks who’ve committed Blog Suicide:
Senior Editor Maria Schneider is writing an article on bloggers who were burned by something they posted online. Have you ever posted something on your blog that cost you a job, a relationship or a writing gig? We may want to feature your story in a future article for "Writer’s Digest." Tell us about it in the "WD" Forum or send an e-mail to writersdig@fwpubs.com with "Blogged and Burned" in the subject line.
It seems to me that anybody who has committed Blog Suicide, and then responds to this article, would only be compounding the original mistake. Why draw even more attention to your career-killing, job-costing, dumb move? Not all publicity is good publicity.
“It seems to me that anybody who has committed Blog Suicide, and then responds to this article, would only be compounding the original mistake.”
Hmmm, seems like someone should update Frank Zappa’s song “Dancing Fool” to
They all steps aside
They has a fit while I commit
My social suicide, Im a
Bloggin’ fool, Im a
Bloggin’ fool
It’s called being “dooced.”
From Urban Dictionary.com:
dooced: to lose one’s job because of one’s website.
“Dude, I heard Janey got dooced last week.
“Blogger Heather B. Armstrong coined the phrase in 2002, after she was fired from her Web design job for writing about work and colleagues on her blog, Dooce.com”
BTW, dooce.com is one of my current favorites. Check it out.
I had the same reaction, Lee. Having shot yourself in the foot, now let’s take an ad out in the New York Times to tell the world about it.
Good idea. Reeeeaaaallll goood.