Con­tin­u­ing from my pre­vi­ous post, Jupiter Research ana­lyst Michael Garten­berg pre­dicts more peo­ple will get fired, and hired, over their blogs in 2005.

Link: Michael Garten­berg: I was fired for blog­ging.

Nev­er­the­less, one of my pre­dic­tions for 2005 is that there will be more folks who get fired over things they say or post on their weblog … The nature of the medium means there are more folks who can eas­ily find ways to make them­selves look silly in front of more peo­ple than ever before.

But there’s another side of this whole phe­nom­ena as well. Lots of folks will get hired as a result of their weblogs in 2005 … The sto­ries of those who get fired are a cau­tion­ary tale. The more inter­est­ing ones are those that achieve pos­i­tive results as a result of their efforts and who keep their amus­ing pic­tures of them­selves off the net :)