If that's people's attitudes, I'm down with that - I'm not reading their blogs out of some moral sense of superiority that no one can find me or something, though I do work slightly at that. I don't get that sense of it from the situation I'm in. At least one of my authors has a non-name LJ linked off their name domain that I have access to, and it is treated as a personal journal rather than a professional one, and that's not particularly smart. Most of the publishing industry is looking for ways not to do their jobs, frankly; adding in that an author is passive-aggressive based on knowledge from an available LJ has the potential to make people sit up and think about whether or not to hire them. We all want to work with the easiest people possible; sometimes LJ does not leave one with that impression.
I feel, in a way that I can't articulate, that this is very different from an employer checking out an employee's blog, but that might only be because I'm down with blogging myself, so I get that everyone needs to vent. But some things do not belong on a professional site that reps you to the world, and frankly, a personal life is part of that. I do enough hand holding and brow stroking as it is. Possibly the difference is that it sounds like you're not using a website or a blog as part of your you-name professional web representation. Yes, someone can get to you by googling, but you have a job that, as far as I know, does not require you to rep yourself to people on a weekly basis.
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Date: 2007-08-29 01:57 pm (UTC)I feel, in a way that I can't articulate, that this is very different from an employer checking out an employee's blog, but that might only be because I'm down with blogging myself, so I get that everyone needs to vent. But some things do not belong on a professional site that reps you to the world, and frankly, a personal life is part of that. I do enough hand holding and brow stroking as it is. Possibly the difference is that it sounds like you're not using a website or a blog as part of your you-name professional web representation. Yes, someone can get to you by googling, but you have a job that, as far as I know, does not require you to rep yourself to people on a weekly basis.