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Ethical Quandary: Assistant, Blogging, and Logins

I’m wondering how to handle a tricky aspect of working with an assistant.

Hi, all. Sorry I haven’t been blogging here much lately, but I’ve been slammed trying to keep my head above water with my client projects. I’m working on a strategy to lighten my stress level (and reduce the near-constant sensation of being pecked [...]

AP replacing journalism with stenography?

Parade.com

AP let Parade off way too easy.

In my daily links post today, I noted Steve Outing’s spot-on Jan 6 critique of this weekend’s gaffe by Parade Magazine — the popular full-color, feature-rich magazine wedged into already-bloated Sunday papers around the country. Here’s Outing’s description of what happened:
“Tens of millions of people were treated to an [...]

Matthew Murray and The Dark Side of Support Forums

Ex-Pentecostals.org forums

Colorado gunman Matthew Murray displayed a disturbing pattern of behavior in these forums. Could this community have acted earlier to prevent tragedy?

Make no mistake: Online support forums, whether grassroots community efforts or run by organizations, generally do a hell of a lot of good. You can find support forums dealing with just about any [...]

Notes for blogging ethics panel

Amy Gahran

The Blogworld Expo lounge, wifi included.

I’ve been writing a fair amount lately about blogging ethics, and it’s all been in preparation for my panel today. Here’s some food for thought from my panelists:
Toby Bloomberg recently did an excellent podcast exploring Astroturfing: Grassroots Sleaze
Graydancer has written some thoughtful posts on respecting privacy, and on setting [...]

Boiling down blogging ethics: What would YOU do?

Rileyroxx, via Flickr (CC license)

Some decisions are harder than others.

Tomorrow I head off to Las Vegas for Blogworld Expo, where on Thursday morning I’m leading a large panel on blogging ethics.
I’ve gotta admit, normally I don’t give panel topics as much thought as I’ve been giving this one. But lately, questions of publishing ethics (in [...]

My Blogging Ethics Panel Expands

In just under a week, on Nov. 8, I’ll be leading what may be the biggest panel (at least numerically) at BlogWorld Expo in Las Vegas. The topic is Blogging Ethics. If you’re attending, it’s part of the “Advanced Track” in room S220 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, 10:15-11:45 am.
A couple of days [...]

Blogging Ethics: What are the issues?

My Blogging Ethics panelists. Clockwise from top left: Graydancer, Toby Bloomberg, Christopher Calicott, and Charlotte-Anne Lucas.

As I’m preparing for my Nov. 8 BlogWorld Expo panel on Blogging Ethics, I’m trying to map out the territory. Specifically, what are the main ethical issues that bloggers encounter?
Based on my initial research, it seems that these issues fall [...]

Blogging Ethics: WSBD? (What Should Bloggers Do?)

Timothy Lloyd, via Flickr (CC license)

There are lots of ways to make ethical decisions. This probably isn’t the best one.

I’ve pulled together an interesting panel session for Blogworld Expo. It’s called Blogging Ethics: Making Tough Decisions, and it’ll be held Thursday Nov. 8, 10:15-11:45 am at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
(Right now they still have [...]

Fixing Old News: How About a Corrections Wiki?

NYtimes.com

Any news org should be able to do more with corrections than this…

Denver Post 8/30/2007, p. 2B

Or this… What? You can’t see the corrections on that page?

Denver Post 8/30/2007, p. 2B

…Look way down here in the corner

Even the best journalists and editors sometimes make mistakes. Or sometimes new information surfaces that proves old stories — [...]