Plus someone from techcruch left me a message on this blog! Haha shall I be afraid?

Twitter, Flickr and Facebook are great for the personal me, some somewhat targeted and fenced environments on the web where I have more context and constraints in which to express myself.

I don’t have any guilt in talking about my work life, or for that matter products and services that we (my present job) offer as it is such a big portion of my life — work.

Blogs are as you said it @Isofaro, the “voice of the author”, a human being behind the html, someone who is unique, who thinks, does, communicates different from every one else. We therefore, as bloggers, set our own publishing criteria which will inevitably detract some visitors the same as it may attract others.

Keep doing what works for you. You can’t please everyone but you can delight some.

The other half of the problem is that no matter how clearly you disclaim that you do not represent your employer and opinions you share may not necessarily reflect those of your employer; sites like TechCrunch ignore that and take whatever you write as a standpoint of that employer. That’s happened with Dare Obasanjo recently, and it just isn’t right, nor conducive to a mutually enlightening conversation.

Unfortunately, the only way of avoiding that mire is not to blog, or to clearly not to talk about your employer / their interests. That’s why so many bloggers go dark when they join recognised organisations like Apple, Google, Yahoo – someone’s going to deliberately misconstrue things (both externally and internally to the employer).

Thanks Jeremiah. You are really quick! *jaw drops* /impressed!

This is your living room, everyone is a guest in your home, so it’s all your rules, you get to define what you talk about and the sort of comments you accept.

Christian’s “scrap book” approach has a nice anti-patent sting, in that because blog posts are timestamped, it’s easier to prove prior-art on ideas that are patented these days.

The main rule I have in my blog is not to talk about work. Although I cannot separate work from non-work in the real world, I try to enforce it on my blog where I can. I also don’t talk about my real personal stuff, just maybe hint at the edges now and again. I hold that tightly close. And so the topic range is enough for it to remain largely impersonal. It’s still a mask, but one that I alone define.

Thanks for posting this.