Ethics

Will blogging get you fired?

Possible subtitles for this rumble:

“What have Jan Pronk, the UN Secretary General’s Special Representative to Sudan and Ellen Simonetti, an attractive young flight attendant have in common?“
“The conscience struggles while standing on the soapbox”
“The Day I met the Terrorist Organisation, to Publish or not to Publish?”

My fifteen minutes of fame.

My first website was about 6 weeks old. Born out of the lust to (finally) publish my short-stories. And flattered by the response from the readers. It is always nice to do something, that others find interesting. Little was I prepared for what happened on a weekend two years ago.
Normally the visitors counters showed me an average of two to three users online at any given time. I knew something was different when last just before going to bed, I saw 70 users online at the same time. Google Analytics showed me the users were mainly referred to by a German and a US based Internet news-feed site. It seemed the story of The Day I Got Deported from the US was picked up by the masses. In the next 24 hours, instead of the usual 500-600 pages visitors read per day, I got a record page view of 12,000.

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