Wired’s Threat Level blog cites an interesting study that found that nearly 10% of companies have fired at least one employee for leaving comments on a message board or a blog. Nearly ten percent of companies have fired an employee for violating corporate blogging or message board policies, and 19 percent have disciplined an employee for the same infractions, according to a new survey from Proofpoint, a messaging security company. Almost a third of companies “employ staff to read or otherwise analyze outbound email,” while more than fifteen percent have hired people whose primary function is to spy on outgoing corporate email. A quarter have fired an employee for violating corporate email policies. Twenty percent of the companies and almost thirty percent of companies with more than 20,000 employees had been ordered by a court or a regulator to turn over employee emails. Wired’s Threat Level also notes that Proofpoint, the company behind the survey, is a “vendor that sells message monitoring equipment.” Proofpoint’s survey is very timely as one of the big business news stories this week was the trouble Whole Foods CEO John Mackey got in over comments he left on a Yahoo dicussion forum under the name “Rahodeb.” Mackey’s blog was even put on hold (via Ars Technica). The fact that message board comments were lumped in with blog comments in this study is a little unfair to the blogosphere but there may not be much that can be done about it. Corporations tend to frown on employees leaving comments anywhere — whether it is a blog, website, news article or online forum. Posted in Blog Comments Permalink | Recent Headlines | WWFeeds.com

O.J. Simpson s If I Did It Makes Its Long-Delayed Internet Leak
Defamer – Some exciting news for those among you disappointed at never having gotten a peek inside If I Did It , leisure enthusiast read more: celeb jurisprudence kill lit oj simpson

25 Wedding Favorites
25 Wedding Favorites Customer Review: Preview your wedding day This CD was inexpensive, and provided a great way to preview songs for my wedding. The CD had a good song selection. My fiance and I were able to get a better idea of how the songs would be at our wedding. Definitely [...]

GigaOm Goes Green
The GigaOm blog network has gone green with its latest blog Earth2Tech. As the name of the blog implies the coverage will be about green technologies and coverage of green business ideas. Om Malik introduced the blog on GigaOm. We are launching our latest blog – Earth2Tech, a site devoted to the business of clean technologies, its innovations and everything else. While there are many sites that help consumers live “greener,” we are focusing our energies on the business of clean and green. One part clean tech startup coverage – (a quick look at clean tech venture numbers shows the growing ranks of startups in hot areas like solar and biofuels); One part reviews of tech giant’s eco-initiatives (is Google’s carbon neutral initiative more marketing or responsible plan?); One part a resource page for entrepreneurs and Valley types looking for green tech [tools, rules, tips] – LBS meets ethanol? A welcome post from the blog’s editor Katie Fehrenbacher says it took some time to convice Om Malik to launch the green blog. It took a bit to convince Om to go GigaGreen – read his rendition here. But if investors and founders like Sunil Paul, and the oft-quoted John Doerr, and Vinod Khosla, are all aiming at energy over IT and the web, then he felt we’re in pretty good company. It might be a bubble, even mainstream pubs like NPR and the Economist are now debating that fact. We’re agnostic. As always, through bubble or boom we’ll keep the same GigaOM skepticism on this new site. If green is a bubble then we are all in big trouble as anyone following global warming closely should know. However, it is always important to keep a close on eye on which technologies perform as promised and which companies and products are really as green as they claim to be. Posted in New Blog Permalink | Recent Headlines | WWFeeds.com

Enchanted April (1991)
Enchanted April (1991) This lovely, 1991 adaptation of Elizabeth Von Arnim’s novel has a superb cast and a tone so mellow you can feel your pulse get slower. Josie Lawrence and Miranda Richardson play a pair of unhappily married women who rent an Italian villa for a month, sharing the rent with a crusty [...]

Nintendo Wii proves relative eBay bargain
Sunday’s launch of Nintendo’s Wii console has not generated the media buzz and user frenzy of Sony’s PlayStation 3, but the $250 console has generated a steady stream of e-commerce revenue, accordi… more from theauctionboard… EBay software pirates fined $100,000The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) has been paid $100,000 in damages after settling two cases [...]

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