...being HorsePigCow'd?

Some people get fired for blogging. Like him. And her. And her. Employers, including Google, who just don't dig that bloggers are being bloggers. We blab. Sometimes we say inane things. Sometimes we rail. Sometimes we rail against employers who are unfair or just don't get it. Bloggers are a scary lot, I know.

Sure, there are some evil bloggers out there. Shel calls these types 'chihuahuas'. They spend their time in the blogosphere masked in anominity, saying mean things without much thought to the fact that they are dealing with another human being. Their passive aggressiveness is apparent. I doubt if many of them would act as cruel in a face to face conversation. [which makes me wonder about conversations online a little]

But there are more bloggers with heart and soul and brains and passion. Many bloggers take significant portions of their days to converse with one another. Exchanges of ideas, stories, passions, information and cool stuff are happening daily. It's hard to keep up with the positive interchanges online. These are people that believe in the power of conversations, connections and, most of all, the blogosphere. Sometimes we want to believe the power of the blogosphere so badly that we will make it happen. Hugh and his followers (I'm one) with his Stormhoek and English Cut. Jeff with his Dell woes. These are true and poignant stories, but they are also driven by the passion to change the way we communicate. Down with mass media! Small is the new big!

And then something even more significant happens. A blogger is hired. For being a blogger. And not only for being a blogger, but for being a blogger who quite often says everything wrong. She (me) is herself.

Is this the start of a new trend? Are there going to be more visionary companies out there that will read a blog (or be referred to a blog) and see it's author in all of his/her rawness and know in an instant that he/she is the kind of person that should be working for them? This is just another story of the power of the blogosphere.

Put your blogs onto your resumes! Fire up your Typepad/Blogger/WordPress/etc.! Next official job title: "Director of Blogging". Love it.

p.s. Believe me, I won't change. I'll be the same big pain in the ass I've always been.