Heather lost her job because of her website

At what point does my personal website, regardless of what I've published on the site, affect my professional life? If I am not responsible for the two colliding (meaning, an anonymous person tips off my employer that I run a personal weblog), is it right that my employer should condemn me for expressing personal dissatisfaction? Would it be any different if someone found a notepad on which I had scribbled things about my job and turned it in to my boss?

I guess I'm lucky in this regard. My boss is the one responsible for getting me into blogging in the first place. Although, while I do blog at work, I don't generally blog about work or my co-workers except in the most general terms possible. But that's as much a friend issue as a politics issue. There are lots of things I don't talk about here because my family and friends read this site and it's not good friend politics to say everything that's going on in my mind all the time.

But If I ever moved on into another job, I would expect to be allowed to say what I like about that job on my site, as long as I followed the unwritten rule to never refer to anyone by name, which is exactly what Heather did. Her employers crossed a line and personally, I think she'd have a case if she wanted to sue for wrongful termination.