I recently got embroiled at a particular post over at Tomorrow, not primarily because of its contents, but rather because of how it was handled (My comments there are labelled by my acronym WJ).

Tomorrow led to a post on a blog which I normally avoid.

The blog I normally avoid led to two other posts (1, 2) on yet other blog. And some comments among those left on this blog rendered me speechless:

And oh, so you are a judge what is 'serious' and what is not?

hahahahahahahaahahahahahaHmm. If you are a 'serious blogger' but you no have no one reading your blog, are you still a blogger?Childish? Infantile? Those are folks like you label us.

If that's what you call us, that's fine by us. Now, run along, and continue blogging on a blog no one reads.

I must confess that I am a bystander in this: I read these comments late and had no idea what kind of circumstances led to them. In fact, I probably should keep totally out of it, except a part of me wants to record it down for posterity's sake (the part of me that revels in gossip and all things irrelevant).

I now realize why many firms are worried that their employees blog. We can write disclaimers all we want, deny affiliations all we want, but at the end of the day, everything we write reflects on our employer. And the Internet is a large place. The seemingly innocuous comment left in one place can snowball and one day, flatten you.

Reconcile the comment above, for example, with this person (I was pretty flabbergasted to find the Wiki... even Sim Wong Hoo's Wiki is not as detailed!). Kind of scary? Believe me when I say that this "Internet pioneer" of Singapore made not one, but many comments like the above. Better yet, go read them yourself.

Nicholas' blog finally led me to La Idler's, an ex-editor at Tomorrow who dropped out. No prizes for guessing which one person she's referring to.

Filed under: Internet, Blogger, Blogging, Musings