2001年2月女职员希瑟·阿姆斯特朗（Heather Armstrong）开始在网上写自己的Blog，一年之后却因为自己Blog上面关于工作和同事的叙述被公司知道而遭到开除。这次事件引发了美国国内对博客和工作之间关系的大讨论，希瑟的网名Dooce也因此成为了家喻户晓的名字，并很快成为了该现象的代名词。

 

希瑟以前是一名网络设计师，在她的Blog里记录下了她几年里工作生活、从单身到找到如意郎君，再到当上妈妈的所感所想，她对办公室工作的描述和后来记录怀孕生子的文章都得到了很多网友的关注，现在希瑟已经正式当上了一位全职妈妈。这里是她的Blog地址，这里是她对自己的介绍。

 

 

1. To be fired because of comments made about the company by an employee on a personal blog. Heather Armstrong coined the phrase in 2002 after losing her job because of blog entries about work. Coworkers called her "Dooce" because she made so many misspellings typing "doode" as a joke to emphasize the "oo" in dude.

 

2. Neologism. To get dooced is to lose one's job because of one's website. The term was coined by blogger Heather B. Armstrong, after she was fired for writing stories about her colleagues on her blog Dooce.com. Her advice to bloggers is never to write about their work on the Internet unless their boss knows and sanctions the fact that they are doing so.

 

Further Reading: 美国网上博客活跃 促生英文新词“dooce”