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Andrew Sullivan's blog, the Daily Dish, can be found at time.com
...Google's credit, there are companies that have made far worse bargains in China and haven't got half the public spanking for it. In December the Chinese government took offense at the contents of a blog hosted by Microsoft's MSN service. Microsoft promptly clamped it shut, noting that the company had to obey the law of the land. Earlier last year Beijing investigated a man who used Yahoo! for his e-mail. Yahoo! promptly handed over his computer's IP address. Yahoo! now has one less customer: the man got 10 years for leaking "state secrets...
While Jaworski proudly puts her name on Beauty Dish and takes a tone of amused detachment toward her subjects, most salesclerks who blog stay anonymous--to hold on to their jobs and take full advantage of the chance to rant, without mercy, about shoppers' bad behavior. "Do not wait until one minute before we close to come into my store and expect me to wait patiently while you browse and then don't buy anything," chastises Retail Recorder, a blogger who identifies herself only as a store manager. The cell-phone saleswoman who writes a blog called Can You Hear...
That makes shoppers perhaps the perfect fodder for America's newest form of back talk: blogs. Once limited to the occasional coffee-break rant with their colleagues, salespeople are turning to the Web to vent about and occasionally mock the bizarre customer encounters that make working in retail so, um, interesting. "One day a male client called and asked that I bring over some foot-cream samples," writes Birdie Jaworski, an Avon lady, in her blog, Beauty Dish. "He not only wanted to try them on my feet, but then he wouldn...
Professors have been venting their frustrations on new blog RateMyStudents.com, where they can rate their students, CUE-guide style, producing such gems...