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Blogs, Health and Time and Ethics Crisis

One afternoon recently, I noticed that Steve Hall at adrants, a complusive, 7 day-a-week poster, hadn't posted anything on his blog yet that day. I emailed him "R u allright?" He said I was the third person to ask him, and noted how people assume bloggers are sick if we don't post.

A friend of mine who hadn't heard from me in a while emailed, "I know you are still alive, because you're blogging."

In an email exchange with Rick Bruner, who founded Business Blog Consulting and who is now a big who ha at Doubleckick, I teased him that he doesn't blog because now he has a real J-o-b. And he responded "Exactly! I'd say the correlation between avid blogging and non-standard work life is high. No wonder the whole thing took off during the recession."

My work life is as non-standard as they get, and lately I am slaving over a hot computer for countless hours every day to write this blog and launch Ethics Crisis. It's big fun, but the researching, writing, promoting and so on take time, time, time. Just venting. Have a great evening. I'll be offline. :>)

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In this case, do we need to worry that the good people of LA will be left on their own as LAPD chief William Bratton launches its blog?

Kinda makes you wonder, huh?

http://lapdblog.typepad.com/lapd_blog/

: )

Posted by: Ann Handley at May 12, 2006 4:25 PM

Interesting that the LAPD would use a blog for whatever reason.

I wonder if Bratton is really going to write the blog.

More likely, some flak thought this one up and writes it for him.

Posted by: B.L. Ochman at May 12, 2006 4:39 PM

Considering that they are using the blog to respond to "criticisms" of the LAPD, you can be sure that a bevy of lawyers are going to carefully comb over whatever the PR flak writes, reducing the pablum to extra-smooth pablum (?), if that's possible.

So no high hopes there...but it's an interesting effort nevertheless and definite barometer of the times, you know?

Posted by: Ann Handley at May 12, 2006 5:34 PM

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Blogger, social media strategy consultant to Fortune 500 companies, and sought-after corporate speaker B.L. Ochman heads the creative team of whatsnextonline.com. She also publishes the Ethics Crisis blog for SRF Global Translations

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