All too often, blogging is portrayed in the media as a quickfire way to lose your job. Actually, as long as you either remain anonymous, or avoid saying anything about your job that you shouldn’t be saying in public, it’s perfectly safe, and can actually be a good thing. Tim Bray explains it better than I can:

I have given several press interviews in recent days, all more or less along the same lines: someone’s been assigned to write a story about people being fired for blogging. Recent pieces from AP and CNET are pushing this spin, going on and on and on about the risks. Except for, it’s all a bunch of BS. For most people, blogging is a career-booster, both in your current job and when you’re looking for your next one. This fragment includes, among other things, Ten Reasons Why Blogging Is Good For Your Career.