Comments on: Boiling down blogging ethics: What would YOU do?

By: contentious.com - Notes for blogging ethics panel

contentious.com - Notes for blogging ethics panel — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 16:53:10 +0000

[...] been writing a fair amount lately about blogging ethics, and it’s all been in preparation for my panel today. [...]

By: christopher

christopher — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 07:48:19 +0000

I just wanted to say.. great work, Amy. The ethics posts and considerations you have made I think are a great starting point, not only for our panel tomorrow, but possibly for some other ideas I would like to consider openly with the panel. I'm really looking forward to BlogWorld! -=- christopher my Las Vegas blog

By: M

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:27:12 +0000

Your list does seem to show the (potential or real) gap between traditional (professionally verified/verfiable?) journalism and blog journalism. I don’t think ethics are typically subjective or muddy; words like ‘honesty’ have only one meaning. The ethics become unclear when WE have selfish motives.
Essentially, does your list of ethical issues currently represent a real identity crisis, namely that our technology allows a user to blog or publish without proper verification or identification? Is the online world safe? Currently, does the collective lack of user/blogger scruples make the online world and the real world more vulnerable, less safe? I think I know the answer. I think everyone else does, too.

By: Amy Gahran

Amy Gahran — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 14:06:53 +0000

Thanks, Maryn

Yes, the field of blogging is definitely more varied than journalism, and answers are likely to be less predictable for bloggers than journalists. I’ll be interested to see how this works out.

By: maryn mckenna

maryn mckenna — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 04:26:32 +0000

This is a marvelous list; I’m taking the liberty of sharing the link at the American Society of Journalists and Authors e-journalism board (access restricted, but if they say anything interesting I’ll post back). I am so curious what your panel and audience will say. Coming from a J-school/newspaper background, I know what my responses to these questions are (especially 3 and 4!), but I’m very interested to hear the opinions of those who don’t agree with me.