Blogging may be hazardous for your day job

Blogging while at work? That might just get you fired, reports the Christian Science Monitor. Even as the Society for Human Resource Management found recently that three percent of surveyed workplaces have disciplined employee bloggers, freelance journalist Curt Hopkins recorded more than 20 cases of bloggers who say they were fired because of their online presence. These ranged from an airhostess posting her pictures on her blog to a features writer for a North Carolina paper who got sacked for keeping an online journal, often recording details about her colleagues. The lack of specific laws on blog related termination of employees makes the situation obscure, but if "you've still got the itch to blog," then "to live your dream," said Lea VanderVelde, a professor at the University of Iowa College of Law. "But don't be surprised if you're fired."