Using common sense with blogging helps (don’t blog at work, don’t mention your company, co-workers, family or friends unless they are actively involved with your blog), but have to be able to roll with the punches. Obscurity isn’t the same thing as privacy, and if anything your doing is public on the Internet the healthiest thing to do is put up some barriers of privacy (preventing total strangers from finding out too much about you), but also not to do anything you’d be ashamed of.

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I was also thinking about the potential privacy concerns and other internet ’safety’ concerns with one broadcasting themselves, as a ‘brand’ and otherwise, through blogging and other means. I realize it can be hard to say whether or not someone would have any serious problems but I guess that is a risk of business or life in general. ;)

Anyone have experience, good or bad with this? Any ideas, tips, things to consider through this?

It really is about the mental switch to the “do I want to work anywhere that wouldn’t want to hire me because of something I’m passionate about?” train of thought.

I know there will be times when I’ll regret it (the Steve Rubel / Twitter situation earlier this week is a good example). But it’s more understanding that you just have to roll with those punches.