Other bloggers famous for being fired:

• Heather Armstrong put the word Dooced in the (urban) dictionary. Both Jen and Armstrong acknowledge they were foolish in blogging indiscriminately, and on the record, about their workplaces.


• Flight attendant Ellen Simonetti showed a little leg and cleavage in photos of herself. She plans to sue Delta Airlines for wrongful termination.


• Joe Gordon, fired from the bookseller Waterstone’s in the U.K. after 11 years on the job.

But let’s be honest, some bloggers are malicious. Here are other prime candidates for doocing, if their employers ever discover their identities:

• Pharmablogger: "I am an employee in the Clinical Development area of a large pharmaceutical company ("Pharma"), and I have attended an American law school. I've witnessed my industry manipulate, distort, subvert, suppress, and otherwise mangle facts in pursuit of increasing their consumption of the nation's wealth.”
• Disgruntled, a copywriter for an ad agency in Detroit, who writes rudely about her co-workers and her clients: "My job is sucking the life out of me. If you'd like to lament with me about jobs that slowly kill you, please, stay awhile. Misery loves company!"

Moral of the story: make it easy for everyone; come up with guidelines for employees who blog. Here are the ones Jen helped his new employer Plaxo develop, and here are Hill & Knowlton’s.