Wow! In his Business Blog Consulting blog, Rick Bruner tells the tale of a blogger at Google who made a couple of "whoopsies" on his blog:
Yet another great object lesson in the dangers of business blog, or "When Bloggers Attack." John Battelle tells the story of a blogger at Google writing some things he shouldn't have (like how drunk his sales collegues got at a sales conference, various business secrets, etc.) and then editing the posts on the advice of management, but not before they were archived forever on Yahoo, which Battelle helpfully points out.
The Internet is an unforgiving medium. On false step, and you could be immortalized by a search engine or the Wayback Machine. (Gulp!)
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