EMPLOYERS PUT KIBOSH ON BLOGGING

It's getting harder to be a blogger:

Bosses are considering putting specific provisions in employment contracts that could regulate what you put in your private blog or even prevent you from blogging at all, according to a new book.

A chapter on blogging and the law, written by two Australian experts, says such clauses could stop employees from referring to their workplace even when they are writing personal blogs from their own home.

"Employers are now considering including specific blogging provisions in employment contracts," the authors write in Uses of Blogs, a book to be published later this year.

"Some employers have even taken the steps to ensure that employment contracts disallow employees from blogging at all."

Co-author Damien O'Brien, from the Queensland University of Technology law faculty, says some workplaces have specific policies against blogging in the office but "it can get a bit blurred whether [it's] in the workplace or at home".

"Certainly some of the provisions that would be put in contracts would cover when people are blogging outside their work," he says.

I'm betting this will affect RWDBs more than lefty bloggers: how many lefty bloggers have jobs?