11:44 AM
Via Mefi, a Washington Post story on bloggers whose personal blogs have collided with their employer's NDAs. If you're wondering why I don't talk about work much on OD, well, there you go.

Cross-posting my comment from the MeFi comment thread (with the typo--sigh--corrected):

Though I'm passionate enough about work-related topics that I commonly discuss them on my page, I rarely talk about work itself. I've signed NDAs on several fronts, both day-job and freelance related, and I don't understand people who don't take them seriously. There's always the option of not signing them, and in some cases they're even negotiable (I've tweaked NDAs in the past from "can't talk about this until the end of the universe" to "X years after end of project"; what lawyers want and what employers will agree to are often different things.)

If you're offhandedly signing an NDA you don't intend to follow (or worse, haven't read) simply to get or keep a job, then the fault isn't in the document. The paycheck you're also signing is in part purchasing your silence as part of the terms of your employment. That's the deal.