4/24/2003
Hartford Paper kills off a blog
I feel blessed for being able to work at a locally owned newspaper. A rare thing these days. It makes for a less corporate environment where a premium is put on solving problems informally. At the big places, corporate management feels all threatened by blogs. Mainly, it's a control issue.
At The Hartford (Conn.) Courant they ordered an employee not to blog on his own time. He dutifully announced it today. They already took away this guy's column. Sheesh, what are they going to do to him next? Take away bathroom privileges?
The editor added that allowing an employee to set up his own opinion blog was a bad precedent. "There are 325 other people here who could create similar [Web sites] for themselves," Toolan said.
And why would that be such a terrible, terrible thing? I think it would be whole lot of free promotion for the paper.
Dan Gillmor comments.
This blog is basically a rough draft and notebook for the things I might write about later. I do run a disclaimer just to make things clear, though.
(Timatollah points me to Ken Layne's astringent comments on this.)
At The Hartford (Conn.) Courant they ordered an employee not to blog on his own time. He dutifully announced it today. They already took away this guy's column. Sheesh, what are they going to do to him next? Take away bathroom privileges?
The editor added that allowing an employee to set up his own opinion blog was a bad precedent. "There are 325 other people here who could create similar [Web sites] for themselves," Toolan said.
And why would that be such a terrible, terrible thing? I think it would be whole lot of free promotion for the paper.
Dan Gillmor comments.
This blog is basically a rough draft and notebook for the things I might write about later. I do run a disclaimer just to make things clear, though.
(Timatollah points me to Ken Layne's astringent comments on this.)
