Gawker to Adage: Fuck-off

In an effort to preserve their livelihood, Gawker helped skew an Ad Age poll asking whether employees should have unfettered access and time to read blogs at work. Loyal Gawker readers rallied to the cause and stuffed the ballot box, resulting in an 85% vote in favor. Full story at Gawker. "Before the Gawker post, the AdAge.com vote tally was running 58% against employees reading of non-work-related blogs during working hours. But within minutes after the post, that began to change. By the time the poll closed 120 minutes later, the tally was 85% in favor of allowing unlimited blog reading by employee," reports Adage. One Narc employer commented, "“Blogs...must be approved by management as having to do with the job at hand. Computer privileges could be jeopardized by visiting unauthorized sites." Far be it for employees to get exposure to ideas and trends inside and outside their industry on company time. They might like, start to have new ideas and stuff.