meta-llamaland
I just read an interesting commentary in tomorrow's NYT magazine discussing privacy issues around blogging. The basic assertion is that there are privacy issues within one's personal/private life, and then there are privacy issues in one's professional life. Of course all of that is really weighed by how popular the blog is. In mine, i think 99.9% of the traffic is coming from comment spammers (who are completing wasting their time now that i've upgraded MT). But for more popular blogs i can see some areas that could be problematic. On the other hand, people foolishly assume that they have a constitutional right to freedom of speach, which they do, but only from the government. Employers, or just about anyone or anything else can empose whatever speach limitations that they have the power to enforce.
I think that for personal relationships, there is some burden of responsibility in the person posting, however talking about larger entities is fine, and can be cathartic. If your employer is treating you poorly, you should be able to vent somewhere.