One of my favorite bloggers has published his “best of” in a soon to be released book.

Visit the blog when you have some time to kill (not that that the typical Wikinomics blog reader ever slacks off his or her work to visit us). He is a great writer and has a huge following (tons of comments on each post).

Anastasia Goodstein and I interviewed “the Waiter” for a white paper we wrote a few years ago. Here is an excerpt:

“The Waiter” is the author an award winning blog about the tribulations of a server at a New York bistro. At its peak it was receiving more than 3 million unique visitors per month; most of the posts receive hundreds of comments from his loyal readers.

While he is self-admittedly an often disgruntled employee, his readers recognize him as a dark hero and appreciate that he is dedicated to the craft of being a server. While he is a firm believer in free speech, he knows that corporate bloggers are bound to be discovered by their real-life colleagues, and need to be prepared for the consequences. He feels that companies should not invade the personal lives of job candidates via digital sleuthing: “if you did something stupid in high school or college which is really the socially sanctioned time to be stupid and it’s on your Web site or in your Facebook and then five years later when you’re a very different person and you’re trying to get a job, it shouldn’t be held against you.”

Further, he believes that companies should actively monitor the blogosphere to appreciate what their employees really think: “I think what happens is that executives get into a headspace where they feel they’re above criticism and the criticism they do hear is couched and very politically correct and work-safe language and I think sometimes that denudes it of its impact and they don’t get it and sometimes that overheard thing in the men’s room or that thing you weren’t supposed to hear is the most valuable you’ve heard when you hear ‘oh my God, everyone thinks I’m a yutz.’”