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Some unfortunate souls have been terminated for blogging.

Troutgirl was fired for blogging about Friendster's switch to PHP. What's interesting about this one is that the story was already on other sources and anyone would be able to identify that they've switched to PHP via their urls.

ReachCustomersOnline.com talks about an employee fired for her racy blog.

If you're an employer, you may need to think about a standard policy on blogging. Read an interesting one at Abc13.com - Could a blog get you fired?