Tuesday, December 05, 2006
Incredible how companies treat technologically savant employees.
These are organizations that have fired, threatened, disciplined, fined or not hired people because of their blogs:
1.) Delta Air Lines
2.) Wells Fargo
3.) Ragen MacKenzie
4.) Starbucks
5.) Microsoft
6.) Friendster
7.) the Houston Chronicle
8.) the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
9.) Nunavut Tourism, (Canada)
10.) Harvard University
11.) Maricopa County Superior Court of Arizona Self Help Center and Library
12.) Mike DeWine, US Senator (R-Ohio)
13.) the Durham Herald-Sun
14.) Kerr-McGee
15.) ESPN (fired someone for making anti-semitic comments in his non-anonymous blog)
Note: I don't agree with Mr. Easterbrook's comments, but technically he was fired for his blog, which is why he made this list.
16.) Apple (according to this blog entry AND this article AND this article)
17.) Statistical Assessment Service (DC nonprofit)
18.) Minnesota Public Radio
19.) The Hartford Courant
20.) the International Olympic Committee (barred athletes from blogging during the Olympics last summer)
21.) Health Sciences Centre, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
22.) the National Basketball Association (NBA)
23.) Kres Chophouse & Lounge, Orlando, FL
24.) Student Advantage / CollegeClub.com
25.) Waterstone's (UK)
26.) USGS (?)--from an anonymous tip
27.) the US Armed Forces
28.) Gap, Inc.
29.) Google
30.) CI Host
31.) Alexander, Holburn, Beaudin & Lang, Vancouver, Canada
32.) Capgemini, Spain
33.) Cottingham & Butler/SISCO
34.) www.BlackStar.co.uk (now www.Sendit.com)
35.) Lancaster University, UK
36.) Gleim Publications (anonymous tip)
37.) US Army Corps of Engineers
38.) Blockbuster
39.) AutoTrader.com
40.) Mobil Travel Guides
41.) Chabad-Lubavitch (Jewish 'evangelical' organization... excommunicated "Shmarya" because of his blog)
42.) Long Island Press
43.) http://www.cartegraph.com/
44.) Kaiser Permanente
45.) STREAM International
46.) Barnes & Noble College Bookstores
47.) State Farm Insurance (anonymous tip)
48.) A*STAR, a Singapore government agency
49.) Delone Catholic High School