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by James Robertson.
Original Post: Self Policing and corporate blogging
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Scoble talks about self censorship and corporate blogging. I can definitely identify with the thrust of that article. Cincom is a much smaller outfit than MS - but as a remote employee, I have only the smallest sense of all corporate activities as well. I live pretty much in the Smalltalk bubble here, and I interact with the other Smalltalk folks - or with corporate folks who are dealing with us Smalltalkers (and a rowdy little bunch we are, too!). I avoid certain topics here - politics especially! - since I'm on a Cincom server. The way I figure it, people coming to read what I'm saying don't care to know what I think about US or International politics - IT industry politics, on the other hand, are fair game (and arguably, part of my job). For that reason, the policing I do is less than what Scoble is talking about - there's nothing secret about Smalltalk release strategy (compared, say, to MS Longhorn strategy). Nevertheless, it's there.
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