Rule Seams

Aleah at Ricksticks writes about the emergence of the new blogging rule set in the wake of more public blogger firings.

Here's one of the questions Aleah raises:

If people cannot feel comfortable speaking candidly about their employers, how many potentially criminal activities will be concealed; how will employee satisfaction / productivity change if a person can't vent their frustrations; how will working conditions change?

The transitions from one set of rules to another is always most dangerous, because of the lack of clarity, and because of the fears of those who know their old rules will soon be eclipsed.

We should expect to see lots more people tripping over the rule seams.

Update: Scoble weighs in on the new blogger firing rule set. We might figure this one out together pretty quickly. It's certainly true that nobody's better equipped to write these rules than the folks who read hundreds of blog entries daily.