Comments on: Write a blog, kill your career? http://liberalconspiracy.org/2010/03/12/write-a-blog-kill-your-career/ Left-wing news, opinion and activism Sat, 26 May 2012 02:26:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: robertsharp59 http://liberalconspiracy.org/2010/03/12/write-a-blog-kill-your-career/#comment-244023 robertsharp59 Mon, 07 Mar 2011 23:27:35 +0000 http://liberalconspiracy.org/?p=12327#comment-244023 <span class="topsy_trackback_comment"><span class="topsy_twitter_username"><span class="topsy_trackback_content">@Andrew_Keenan yup, I had that thought too: http://liberalconspiracy.org/2010/03/12/write-a-blog-kill-your-career/</span></span> @Andrew_Keenan yup, I had that thought too: http://liberalconspiracy.org/2010/03/12/write-a-blog-kill-your-career/

]]> By: robertsharp59 http://liberalconspiracy.org/2010/03/12/write-a-blog-kill-your-career/#comment-121136 robertsharp59 Mon, 12 Apr 2010 13:06:58 +0000 http://liberalconspiracy.org/?p=12327#comment-121136 <span class="topsy_trackback_comment"><span class="topsy_twitter_username"><span class="topsy_trackback_content">@BevaniteEllie should read my post about blogs and politics: http://liberalconspiracy.org/2010/03/12/write-a-blog-kill-your-career/</span></span> @BevaniteEllie should read my post about blogs and politics: http://liberalconspiracy.org/2010/03/12/write-a-blog-kill-your-career/

]]> By: Britblog Roundup #264 « Amused Cynicism http://liberalconspiracy.org/2010/03/12/write-a-blog-kill-your-career/#comment-116805 Britblog Roundup #264 « Amused Cynicism Sat, 27 Mar 2010 16:50:31 +0000 http://liberalconspiracy.org/?p=12327#comment-116805 [...] Robert Sharp wonders if writing a blog might kill a political career. [...] [...] Robert Sharp wonders if writing a blog might kill a political career. [...]

]]> By: Jackart http://liberalconspiracy.org/2010/03/12/write-a-blog-kill-your-career/#comment-114446 Jackart Thu, 18 Mar 2010 08:31:55 +0000 http://liberalconspiracy.org/?p=12327#comment-114446 <span class="topsy_trackback_comment"><span class="topsy_twitter_username"><span class="topsy_trackback_content">A super post at Liberal Conspiracy http://liberalconspiracy.org/2010/03/12/write-a-blog-kill-your-career/</span></span> A super post at Liberal Conspiracy http://liberalconspiracy.org/2010/03/12/write-a-blog-kill-your-career/

]]> By: Edward http://liberalconspiracy.org/2010/03/12/write-a-blog-kill-your-career/#comment-113199 Edward Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:12:10 +0000 http://liberalconspiracy.org/?p=12327#comment-113199 Summary of advice: other people should publish whatever they like, without regard to their future employment prospects, because I like what they publish. This does seem to be advice that works out better for the person who gives it than the person who takes it. Summary of advice: other people should publish whatever they like, without regard to their future employment prospects, because I like what they publish. This does seem to be advice that works out better for the person who gives it than the person who takes it.

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]]> By: Legitimate Work From Home Jobs – 4 Important Things to Consider Before Starting This Career Path | Work At Home http://liberalconspiracy.org/2010/03/12/write-a-blog-kill-your-career/#comment-113072 Legitimate Work From Home Jobs – 4 Important Things to Consider Before Starting This Career Path | Work At Home Sat, 13 Mar 2010 11:18:46 +0000 http://liberalconspiracy.org/?p=12327#comment-113072 [...] Liberal Conspiracy » Write a blog, kill your career? [...] [...] Liberal Conspiracy » Write a blog, kill your career? [...]

]]> By: Abundance Paradigm | rosimon.com http://liberalconspiracy.org/2010/03/12/write-a-blog-kill-your-career/#comment-113071 Abundance Paradigm | rosimon.com Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:33:52 +0000 http://liberalconspiracy.org/?p=12327#comment-113071 [...] Liberal Conspiracy » Write a blog, kill your career? [...] [...] Liberal Conspiracy » Write a blog, kill your career? [...]

]]> By: GB http://liberalconspiracy.org/2010/03/12/write-a-blog-kill-your-career/#comment-113068 GB Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:08:05 +0000 http://liberalconspiracy.org/?p=12327#comment-113068 There are all sorts of people in parliament with colourful political pasts who have done quite well since. People aren't particularly concerned about what politicians have done or said prior to going into politics, unless it's particularly odious or is potentially or actually criminal/immoral. This strikes me as another example of bloggers over estimating the importance of their own blogs. There are all sorts of people in parliament with colourful political pasts who have done quite well since. People aren’t particularly concerned about what politicians have done or said prior to going into politics, unless it’s particularly odious or is potentially or actually criminal/immoral.

This strikes me as another example of bloggers over estimating the importance of their own blogs.

]]> By: Julie Russell http://liberalconspiracy.org/2010/03/12/write-a-blog-kill-your-career/#comment-113156 Julie Russell Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:29:30 +0000 http://liberalconspiracy.org/?p=12327#comment-113156 <span class="topsy_trackback_comment"><span class="topsy_twitter_username"><span class="topsy_trackback_content">RT @libcon: Write a blog, kill your career? http://bit.ly/9oR2BQ</span></span> RT @libcon: Write a blog, kill your career? http://bit.ly/9oR2BQ

]]> By: robertsharp59 http://liberalconspiracy.org/2010/03/12/write-a-blog-kill-your-career/#comment-113063 robertsharp59 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:45:09 +0000 http://liberalconspiracy.org/?p=12327#comment-113063 <span class="topsy_trackback_comment"><span class="topsy_twitter_username"><span class="topsy_trackback_content">@tom_watson I have just been writing about this @LibCon: http://bit.ly/9JRFnA. (RT A blogger runs for Senate: http://nyti.ms/ch5H1W)</span></span> @tom_watson I have just been writing about this @LibCon: http://bit.ly/9JRFnA. (RT A blogger runs for Senate: http://nyti.ms/ch5H1W)

]]> By: uberVU - social comments http://liberalconspiracy.org/2010/03/12/write-a-blog-kill-your-career/#comment-113033 uberVU - social comments Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:56:06 +0000 http://liberalconspiracy.org/?p=12327#comment-113033 <strong>Social comments and analytics for this post...</strong> This post was mentioned on Twitter by markjappleby: RT @libcon Write a blog, kill your career? http://ow.ly/1qfiwv... Social comments and analytics for this post…

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]]> By: robertsharp59 http://liberalconspiracy.org/2010/03/12/write-a-blog-kill-your-career/#comment-113003 robertsharp59 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:31:30 +0000 http://liberalconspiracy.org/?p=12327#comment-113003 <span class="topsy_trackback_comment"><span class="topsy_twitter_username"><span class="topsy_trackback_content">New blog from me on @LibCon: 'Write a blog, kill your career?' http://bit.ly/aHp5g0 Thanks @antonvowl @bitoclass for the RTs</span></span> New blog from me on @LibCon: 'Write a blog, kill your career?' http://bit.ly/aHp5g0 Thanks @antonvowl @bitoclass for the RTs

]]> By: BenSix http://liberalconspiracy.org/2010/03/12/write-a-blog-kill-your-career/#comment-112999 BenSix Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:22:59 +0000 http://liberalconspiracy.org/?p=12327#comment-112999 <blockquote>It’s the daft interviews you do half-pissed with random websites when you were an undergraduate that come back to haunt you.</blockquote> I sshh...I won' ever r'gr't nothin'. I gotsh no r'gretch, 't all. YOU'RE ALL MY BESHT FRiendsh, but awl boshish are [the surnames of 18th Century German philosophers].

It’s the daft interviews you do half-pissed with random websites when you were an undergraduate that come back to haunt you.

I sshh…I won’ ever r’gr’t nothin’. I gotsh no r’gretch, ‘t all. YOU’RE ALL MY BESHT FRiendsh, but awl boshish are [the surnames of 18th Century German philosophers].

]]> By: Paul Sagar http://liberalconspiracy.org/2010/03/12/write-a-blog-kill-your-career/#comment-112991 Paul Sagar Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:59:10 +0000 http://liberalconspiracy.org/?p=12327#comment-112991 What you write in your blog isn't a problem. It's the daft interviews you do half-pissed with random websites when you were an undergraduate that come back to haunt you. What you write in your blog isn’t a problem.

It’s the daft interviews you do half-pissed with random websites when you were an undergraduate that come back to haunt you.

]]> By: Watchman http://liberalconspiracy.org/2010/03/12/write-a-blog-kill-your-career/#comment-112987 Watchman Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:42:20 +0000 http://liberalconspiracy.org/?p=12327#comment-112987 "What if you make any u-turns on your own views that, in future years, might turn out to be deeply embarrassing?" Then explain way you changed your mind. There has to be a good reason - 'because it would get me elected' excepted. People are not stupid (although the media can be) so they accept that people can undergo a journey, because they have as well. Life is learning, and learning gives you new perspectives. “What if you make any u-turns on your own views that, in future years, might turn out to be deeply embarrassing?”

Then explain way you changed your mind. There has to be a good reason – ‘because it would get me elected’ excepted. People are not stupid (although the media can be) so they accept that people can undergo a journey, because they have as well. Life is learning, and learning gives you new perspectives.

]]> By: Heresiarch http://liberalconspiracy.org/2010/03/12/write-a-blog-kill-your-career/#comment-112985 Heresiarch Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:39:39 +0000 http://liberalconspiracy.org/?p=12327#comment-112985 "Anna is liberal and open-minded but politically she supports The Labour Party" I like that "but". Clearly even in her Labour-supporting days she was aware that the party was closed-minded and illiberal. “Anna is liberal and open-minded but politically she supports The Labour Party”

I like that “but”.

Clearly even in her Labour-supporting days she was aware that the party was closed-minded and illiberal.

]]> By: Shatterface http://liberalconspiracy.org/2010/03/12/write-a-blog-kill-your-career/#comment-112979 Shatterface Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:28:17 +0000 http://liberalconspiracy.org/?p=12327#comment-112979 Blogging should occasionally involve floating half-formed ideas or expressing ambivalence about certain issues and letting commentators test your opinion to destruction. There should be an award for anyone who says 'Yeah, hadn't really thought that through...' Blogging should occasionally involve floating half-formed ideas or expressing ambivalence about certain issues and letting commentators test your opinion to destruction.

There should be an award for anyone who says ‘Yeah, hadn’t really thought that through…’

]]> By: Blanco http://liberalconspiracy.org/2010/03/12/write-a-blog-kill-your-career/#comment-112977 Blanco Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:22:33 +0000 http://liberalconspiracy.org/?p=12327#comment-112977 What if you make any u-turns on your own views that, in future years, might turn out to be deeply embarrassing? What if you make any u-turns on your own views that, in future years, might turn out to be deeply embarrassing?

]]> By: Watchman http://liberalconspiracy.org/2010/03/12/write-a-blog-kill-your-career/#comment-112976 Watchman Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:21:20 +0000 http://liberalconspiracy.org/?p=12327#comment-112976 "If you say something that you believe in but would cause problems with your employers or any potential employers or voters or press." My point exactly (ignoring the employers bit). If you say something you believe in and you are challenged on it, why is that a problem. Defend your beliefs, because if you are up for election it is only fair that it is you, not some homogenised caricture of you, that is presented to the voters. The problem here is the idea that lying to voters about what you believe is OK, not that voters might find out what you do believe (the original post at least allows for misrepresentation). “If you say something that you believe in but would cause problems with your employers or any potential employers or voters or press.”

My point exactly (ignoring the employers bit). If you say something you believe in and you are challenged on it, why is that a problem. Defend your beliefs, because if you are up for election it is only fair that it is you, not some homogenised caricture of you, that is presented to the voters. The problem here is the idea that lying to voters about what you believe is OK, not that voters might find out what you do believe (the original post at least allows for misrepresentation).

]]> By: Blanco http://liberalconspiracy.org/2010/03/12/write-a-blog-kill-your-career/#comment-112964 Blanco Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:52:57 +0000 http://liberalconspiracy.org/?p=12327#comment-112964 Hah. I used to think like the guy who said. fuck that shit. But now I think like the other guy. Unemployment can do that to you. Hah. I used to think like the guy who said. fuck that shit.

But now I think like the other guy. Unemployment can do that to you.

]]> By: Blanco http://liberalconspiracy.org/2010/03/12/write-a-blog-kill-your-career/#comment-112963 Blanco Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:52:09 +0000 http://liberalconspiracy.org/?p=12327#comment-112963 <blockquote>If you believe something you write, why would someone holding it up cause you problems?</blockquote> If you say something that you believe in but would cause problems with your employers or any potential employers or voters or press.

If you believe something you write, why would someone holding it up cause you problems?

If you say something that you believe in but would cause problems with your employers or any potential employers or voters or press.

]]> By: Blanco http://liberalconspiracy.org/2010/03/12/write-a-blog-kill-your-career/#comment-112960 Blanco Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:47:29 +0000 http://liberalconspiracy.org/?p=12327#comment-112960 For a second, I thought the person saying "Fuck that shit" was the person who suggested you should be careful about what you write - i.e. fuck all that idealistic shit about not controlling one's permanently published stuff in the hope of getting a political job one day. That would be my response tbh. Blogging makes little difference to politics at present - if you want to change the world, get a job. If blogging stands in the way of that, dump the blogging. For a second, I thought the person saying “Fuck that shit” was the person who suggested you should be careful about what you write – i.e. fuck all that idealistic shit about not controlling one’s permanently published stuff in the hope of getting a political job one day. That would be my response tbh. Blogging makes little difference to politics at present – if you want to change the world, get a job. If blogging stands in the way of that, dump the blogging.

]]> By: Watchman http://liberalconspiracy.org/2010/03/12/write-a-blog-kill-your-career/#comment-112956 Watchman Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:42:08 +0000 http://liberalconspiracy.org/?p=12327#comment-112956 If you believe something you write, why would someone holding it up cause you problems? As you say, out of context is bad, but that is easily corrected. I think the fear of being caught out is the problem for politicians. After all, how often did say Tony Benn get caught out, agree with him or not? And that was because he believed what he said was right, and if he later believed it was wrong, he would happily say so. Or to take it to extremes, the Winston Churchill type whose mind changing and fence jumping (and writing down volumes of his thoughts) never seemed to bother him too much. The problem is now the obsession with media management, rather than telling the truth. The irony is the internet is actually the best way round the simplistic mirror of the media gaze. If you believe something you write, why would someone holding it up cause you problems? As you say, out of context is bad, but that is easily corrected.

I think the fear of being caught out is the problem for politicians. After all, how often did say Tony Benn get caught out, agree with him or not? And that was because he believed what he said was right, and if he later believed it was wrong, he would happily say so. Or to take it to extremes, the Winston Churchill type whose mind changing and fence jumping (and writing down volumes of his thoughts) never seemed to bother him too much.

The problem is now the obsession with media management, rather than telling the truth. The irony is the internet is actually the best way round the simplistic mirror of the media gaze.

]]> By: Daniel Hoffmann-Gill http://liberalconspiracy.org/2010/03/12/write-a-blog-kill-your-career/#comment-112952 Daniel Hoffmann-Gill Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:37:55 +0000 http://liberalconspiracy.org/?p=12327#comment-112952 Heh. Not sure about killing your career but it certainly makes you a target if people take a dislike to you. Just look at what Tim Ireland is experiencing, never mind my petty issues with a mentalist attempting, badly thankfully, to smear me as all kinds of unsavoury things. It's odd what the Interwebs brings out in folks, keeps 'em off the streets though... Heh.

Not sure about killing your career but it certainly makes you a target if people take a dislike to you.

Just look at what Tim Ireland is experiencing, never mind my petty issues with a mentalist attempting, badly thankfully, to smear me as all kinds of unsavoury things.

It’s odd what the Interwebs brings out in folks, keeps ‘em off the streets though…

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