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Another Reason to Avoid Blogger's Disease

By propertyprof

The New York Times is reporting the candidates for a position in the Obama administration have to fill out an extensive questionaire on their background--including controversies they've been involved in and email that is potentially embarassing, as well as ... blog posts.  This is yet another reason to avoid blogger's disease.  The Times reports:

The questionnaire includes 63 requests for personal and professional records, some covering applicants? spouses and grown children as well, that are forcing job-seekers to rummage from basements to attics, in shoe boxes, diaries and computer archives to document both their achievements and missteps.

Only the smallest details are excluded; traffic tickets carrying fines of less than $50 need not be reported, the application says. Applicants are asked whether they or anyone in their family owns a gun. They must include any e-mail that might embarrass the president-elect, along with any blog posts and links to their Facebook pages.

The Times' website provides a pdf version of the entire seven page questionaire.  Mighty interesting stuff that they're looking for, including all books, articles, speeches, and testimony that candidates have given.

Alfred L. Brophy

Full post as published by The Faculty Lounge on November 13, 2008 (boomark / email).