Jan Haugland: Blasphemous MetabloggingSecular Blasphemy is blogging about bloggingUnlikely googling- July 30, 2005 Somebody searched for Iranian erotic magazines and found, to his disappointment, I imagine, this article.http://blogs.salon.com/0001561/categories/blasphemicMetablogging/2005/07/30.html#a7857 Googling me- July 23, 2005 I'm pretty obsessed with statistics about who is reading my blog, and of course I'm keeping tabs on what Google searches lead people here. My article about Hitler's aryan sex doll is still a hot favourite. Imagine that. Norwegian skier and nude model Invild Engesland is also attracting hits all the time. She's very popular in Finland, another skiing nation. Last I heard she had some health problems, alas. But, I have to admit I am more happy when people come here to read debunking of 911...http://blogs.salon.com/0001561/categories/blasphemicMetablogging/2005/07/23.html#a7799 Not nannies gone wild- July 19, 2005 When I read Helaine Olen's NYT piece about why she fired her nanny for what she revealed about her private life in her blog, I thought the article said something far less positive about Olen than the nanny. Now the ex-nanny fires back, on her blog of course. Olen is not looking any better. Lesson of the day: Either be anonymous or don't disclose too much about your private life in your blog, and think twice about sharing your blog with an employer. Via Dan Drezner.http://blogs.salon.com/0001561/categories/blasphemicMetablogging/2005/07/19.html#a7771 - Bloggers need not apply- July 14, 2005 Your blog may come back to haunt you when you apply for a job. An article in the Chronicle of Higher Education discusses how applicants for an academic job left a very bad impression on the committee through their blogging. In some cases, a Google search of the candidate's name turned up his or her blog. Other candidates told us about their Web site, even making sure we had the URL so we wouldn't fail to find it. In one case, a candidate had mentioned it in the cover letter. We felt compelled..http://blogs.salon.com/0001561/categories/blasphemicMetablogging/2005/07/14.html#a7736 |