Blogging

In posting this blog, I have been careful not to include our names. When Liz and I created this blog (which, I admit, I do all the posting for) we wanted our friends and family to be able to read it, but not for any random person that googled our name.

On to my point. When lawfirms hire, one of their first steps now is to google the person, check in myspace, facebook, etc. to see if there are any character issues which they would like to avoid. Or, alternatively, if the person just may not be a fit for the firm. While I am not a fan of this practice, I completely understand why a firm that wants to pay a person lots of money out of lawschool would want to know everything they could about that person.

Ok, now to my point. I have noticed that if you google my full name, you see some stuff about me and someone named betty... But, if you google my name sans wick, the first listing is for an individual website, which consists of a blog. This particular person appears to be blogging with a religious slant, and has some views that are pretty pointed (or so it appears).

I have no problem with people expressing their opinions via blogs. I also have no problems with people with a name similar to mine blogging. I just don't want a firm to read someone else's writing and attribute it to me. Hence, for job purposes, I am going with the "wick".