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This is a short segment about the Civil Serf blog imbroglio from The World Tonight on BBC Radio 4, an interview with Catherine Sanderson, who wrote the Petite Anglaise blog about her life in Paris - which cost her her job. Catherine Sanderson makes some perceptive comments: for totally pseudonymous blogging your content must be as anonymous as your name, and the devil is in the detail. The segment is 4 minutes. Download audio file (20080311-bbc-radio4-world-tonight-civil-serf-interview-with-petite-anglaise.mp3) At around 3pm I will be publishing an article “How to blog about your employer”. This is the excerpt. There are 7 ways I can think of to blog about your employer: 1. Don’t 2. Persuade them to let you. 3. Be anonymous, but not anonymous enough. 4. Ask, and risk a “no”. 5. Be totally anonymous and notorious. 6. Do it as part of your job. 7. Employ yourself. In this article I describe each option, and my assessment of the pros and cons - where they occur. If you do blog about your employer, any option (except number one) should make your life more “interesting”, for a time at least. Tags: politics podcast, David Hartley, Labour party, Doug Hope, ukip, matt revell