Over at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), it seems like they’ve put together some sort of short guideline about Facebook.  Something to the effect that you shouldn’t “friend” sources for a variety of pragmatic reasons (don’t want to let others see what you’re communicating with them), but also, it seems, to maintain some journalistic distance.  I think getting something down in writing about this is probably a good thing, although they should probably make it social network agnostic (and not the strict purview of Facebook).  In the same blog, however, the CBC is laying down the groundwork for a blogging policy which seems utterly ridiculous.  In a nutshell, employees, for *all* _personal_ blogs where you identify yourself as a CBC employee have to get them ok’d with their supervisor, because these _personal_ blogs are not allowed to discuss or advocate for controversial issues or partisan politics.  I’m not sure, but telling your employees — even ones that aren’t journalists — what they can and can’t write off the clock seems to be a violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, like the part about freedom of thought and expression, anyway.