{"id":2996,"date":"2004-12-06T02:22:10","date_gmt":"2004-12-06T18:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/12\/06\/howdy-wired-readers\/"},"modified":"2019-12-11T14:34:07","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T22:34:07","slug":"howdy-wired-readers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/12\/06\/howdy-wired-readers\/","title":{"rendered":"Howdy, Wired readers!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:9672,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.wired.com\\\/news\\\/culture\\\/0,1284,65912,00.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20080706050354\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.wired.com\\\/news\\\/culture\\\/0,1284,65912,00.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 21:04:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21 14:50:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21 14:50:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Over a year after the incident, I&#8217;m getting another few seconds added to my fifteen minutes of fame: last week I was interviewed by phone by Wired, and their article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/culture\/0,1284,65912,00.html\" title=\"Blogs May Be a Wealth Hazard\">hit the &#8216;net today<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  What do a flight attendant in Texas, a temporary employee in Washington and a web designer in Utah have in common? They were all fired for posting content on their blogs that their companies disapproved of.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><del>Aside from that leader being a wee bit misleading (I was let go by my <em>previous<\/em> employer, not the copy company I currently work for), it&#8217;s not a bad article.<\/del><\/p>\n<p><ins>Update:<\/ins> Wired was kind enough to slightly edit the introductory paragraph to clear up the wording a touch. Thanks much!<\/p>\n<p>If there are any visitors hitting my site for the first time who might be curious about just what happened to me, I can direct you to my <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/category\/15minutes\/\" title=\"15 Minutes\">fifteen minutes of fame<\/a> archives, and specifically, <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/10\/even_microsoft.html\" title=\"Even Microsoft wants G5s\">the photo<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/10\/of_blogging_and.html\" title=\"Of blogging and unemployment\">the day I was let go<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/10\/fifteen_minutes.html\" title=\"Fifteen Minutes of Fame\">my wrapup and responses on the whole shebang<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And, of course, feel free to kick around and poke around the rest of the site. Nice to see you here!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over a year after the incident, I&#8217;m getting another few seconds added to my fifteen minutes of fame: last week I was interviewed by phone by Wired, and their article hit the &#8216;net today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[460,13,599],"class_list":["post-2996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-15-minutes-of-fame","tag-life","tag-weblogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}