This is interesting. Ray Ozzie’s company, Groove, is working towards a ‘blog-policy’ which clarifies the rights and responsibilties of the companies employees when writing personal content on their weblogs.
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Petafloptimism 
I’d have thought that personal content on personal weblogs was OK. Personal content on work weblogs was OK if appropriate and work content on personal weblogs might be more problematic.
Personally speaking, I don’t find those barriers easy to define…
I’d agree that there are areas when the lines become blurred but as soon as I feel that I am straying into those areas I back off. I know that there are times when my blog is more restrained or bland than I would otherwise like but in other ways I think it keeps me focused on the universal rather than the particular.
In terms of workblogs there is certainly a tendency for them to become very safe because of the high levels of filtering that you inevitably apply when writing.
But then I apply the same sort of responsibility to writing about close friends or family members – is it any harder?