Social Selves

Here’s what a recently launched corporate blogging appliance allows you to do:

For example, a chief executive who was posting to a blog could set up controls to have material automatically directed to a public relations manager or general counsel before it went live. (Seattle PI)

Yeah, who would have thought? "Controlled blogging" must be the last entry in the list of soon-to-be-famous oxymorons (*).

[The appliance] "offers controlled blogging and must be targeted to the clueless Vice President of Stupidness, much like the Ministry of Silly Walks." (Textura Design Blog)

(*) oxymoron (from Greek – oxymoros, "pointedly foolish," oxy-, "sharp" + moros, "dull, stupid, foolish"):

A paradox reduced to two words, usually in an adjective-noun ("eloquent silence") or adverb-adjective ("inertly strong") relationship, and is used for effect, to emphasize contrasts, incongruities, hypocrisy, or simply the complex nature of reality.

Updated on February 26, 2005: Great minds think (well, almost) alike :grin: :

Doc Searls (in a different context): "Corporate blogging" is so ironic it’s nearly an oxymoron. Having a "system in place to monitor what is being said" seems more consistent with ending a conversation than with starting one.