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Getting dooced

Posted by ESC on February 12, 2005

GETTING DOOCED - "Losing your job for something you wrote in your online blog, journal, website, etc. 'Did you hear Mary got fired yesterday for writing about Becky in her blog? Yeah, she got dooced.' Source: Jennifer, Feb 26, 2004." The Urban Dictionary. www.urbandictionary.com

"It comes from www.dooce.com, whose owner was, apparently, the first person to ever know this fate."

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".There are 8 million personal Web logs -- or blogs -- in the United States, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project. People write blogs to talk about their day, family outings, dates gone awry and, of course, work. But what might feel like a very personal entry about a dismal workday can mean something quite different to a boss who needs only a search engine to read it.,, Usually the blogger has little protection. 'In most states," said Gregg M. Lemley, a St. Louis labor lawyer, 'if an employer doesn't like what you're talking about, they can simply terminate you.'.And that is happening enough that there is even a word for it -- getting "dooced." Blogger Heather B. Armstrong coined the phrase in 2002, after she was fired from her Web design job for writing about work and colleagues on her blog," Dooce.com. Free Expression Can Be Costly When Bloggers Bad-Mouth Jobs by Amy Joyce, Washington Post Staff Writer, Feb. 11, 2005.

The question is, why "dooced"? I've e-mail the person mentioned in Paragraph 2 and asked her.

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