Times warns bloggers that their jobs might not be at risk.

I just read a pretty dopey article in the NYT entitled 'Interns? No Bloggers Need Apply.' The clear inference of the title is that if you have a blog, you can forget about getting an intern position anywhere.

But the article itself doesn't even say that. It does mention a couple of people who lost their gigs because of blogs (only one of them, apparently, was an intern), but it also tells how they've gone on to either better jobs or book deals.

And the two interns it tells about are actually continuing their internships - after coming to some kind of confidentiality agreement with the companies they're interning for.

The remainder of the article explains that most companies really have no hard and fast rules about hiring interns (or even employees) with blogs.

So the moral of the story seems to be this - if you're an intern, don't start a blog because your employers will make you promise not to write about work on your blog. Or they won't because most employers don't have a policy about bloggers.

And if you're an employee, don't start a blog because it might lead to a book deal or a better job.

And no, I'm not making this up. Is the Times so hard up for content that they need to publish half-assed stories under misleading titles? Frankly, it's a little embarrassing. [tag:New York Times] [tag:Blogs] [tag:Interns]