November 19, 2004

Does blogging need an ethics committee?

Christian Crumlish

Quoting from Blog Ethics Committee, Blog Publishers Association, and the evil Word of Mouth Marketing folks - The Jason Calacanis Weblog - calacanis.weblogsinc.com

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Nick Denton put up a pleasantly surprising post today, complimenting me for being a “volunteer watchdog” for blog ethics. He proposes Jeff Jarvis and I start a blog ethics committee in order to create some standards in blog advertising. It’s a great idea, a lot of work, and very important to the blogosphere.

If you’re blogging— for money or not—we all have an interest in having a level of comfort when we’re consuming and creating media. Who doesn’t want to know if a blogger is getting paid to write about something? Who doesn’t want to see advertisements clearly labeled and outside of the content space? I can’t think of one reader of blogs who wants to be deceived....

Posted by xian at November 19, 2004 10:26 AM
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