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News Editor

Vendor’s pitch hits way too close to home

Opinion
May 18, 20071 min

A public relations professional representing one of those makers of Web-use monitoring software wants me to write about his client’s enterprise-grade product in part for this reason:

“Contrary to popular belief, employees whom management considers the top employees are indeed many times the ones who waste the most time on their computers and online.”

Well, well, well …

I’d like to believe that Network World management considers me among its top employees (whether that’s true or a laughable fantasy). And there’s little if any doubt in my mind that I waste as much or more time on my computer and online than most if not all of my colleagues. I’m a blogger, for heaven’s sake; that’s practically the job description.

So explain to me again why I would want to write about this product?