Blogging his layoff at the Miami Herald

Hmm. This is why I stopped doing my Miami Herald blog two years ago when they dropped my post-retirement freelance contract. Things must be different now, since Brayden Simms, who announced his own layoff in a column, says he's being paid to blog -- on life after layoff.

It's not news, since Gawker and The Guardian, among others, have linked to Brayden's blog. But I just noticed a mention on Daily Pulp, who says:

...hey, if you're gonna fire a guy, might as well exploit him on his way out. ... Still a little weird and shameless on the newspaper's part.