Legendary Microsoft blogger Scoble (soon to be ex-MS) recently visited Jonathan Schwartz at Sun. His account of their conversation is well worth reading. I found the following comment about the impending layoff particularly interesting:
For one, Sun is going to encourage all the laid off workers to continue to blog — on Sun’s dime. Now, I can imagine the kind of vitriol and crud that’ll get posted by workers who’ve just lost their jobs. That takes real corporate bravery and my hat is off to him. One good thing about this? It’ll make it possible for new employers to get in touch with laid off workers. There’s a lot of companies that are hungry for workers right now.
So does this apply to recently-laid-off Sun bloggers: will their blogs.sun.com accounts will be unfrozen? Can I get geoffarnold.com added back to b.s.c/planet.do? (At least until I land a new gig.)
And I guess they’ll have to change the b.s.c title, which currently reads:
This space is accessible to any Sun employee to write about anything.