{"id":86,"date":"2006-02-15T20:12:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-16T03:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulgillin.com\/2006\/02\/sometimes-you-shouldnt-blog.html"},"modified":"2006-02-15T20:12:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-16T03:12:00","slug":"sometimes-you-shouldnt-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/sometimes-you-shouldnt-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes you shouldn&#039;t blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Schrage, who&#8217;s one of my favorite tech columnists, has a column in CIO Magazine this week called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cio.com\/archive\/021506\/schrage.html\">Think Before you Blog<\/a>. It makes an excellent point: that blogging by itself doesn&#8217;t necessarily enhance your image and can actually make you look bad. That&#8217;s why you have to think before you get online and start spouting.<\/p>\n<p>A friend recently told me about an executive she knew who decided to get into blogging. He set up a blog on the company site and began raining invective on competitors and other players in his industry. He&#8217;d been told that bloggers were supposed to be controversial, but he apparently didn&#8217;t distinguish between being controversial and being an jerk. His blog was so obnoxious that it became a joke and an embarrassment inside the company. No one wanted to be around him. Only he thought he was doing the company a favor. The company didn&#8217;t. He was fired last December.<\/p>\n<p>Blogging is about having something to say, not about insulting people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Schrage, who&#8217;s one of my favorite tech columnists, has a column in CIO Magazine this week called Think Before you Blog. It makes an excellent point: that blogging by itself doesn&#8217;t necessarily enhance your image and can actually make &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/sometimes-you-shouldnt-blog\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pTy95-1o","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}