What you write online, be it a blog, forum, or website, can be used as legal evidence against you. One teen blogger found this out the hard way and is now facing 5 years in prison.

Although Ranking later retracted his words — deleting them from the blog and penning an explanation — they came back to haunt him, forcing him Monday to plead guilty to DUI manslaughter.

This is a good reason why corporations should be aproaching employee blogging cautiously. There are countless cases of employee e-mail being used in lawsuits and criminal cases; I except we will start seeing more of blogs in the courtroom too.