Maureen Cavanaugh (Guest Host): At last count, there were over 70 million blogs on the internet -- which means there are a lot of people posting comments on those blogs. Some people comment to further the conversation. Others use the forum to threaten and harass, to name-call and to bully others. On occasion, these threats have escalated to the point where bloggers have feared for their lives and opted to take down their blogs.
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Tim O'Reilly's post : Draft Blogger's Code of Conduct (April 8, 2007)
Michael Arrington's response
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My Thoughts On O’Reilly’s Code of Conduct
(April 9, 2007)
View responses from the blogosphere : ( Technorati search results for "code of conduct" ) |
This week, a code of conduct was proposed that attempts to define what kinds of comments are offensive and how bloggers should deal with them. But some bloggers are worried that such a code of conduct limits free speech and is the first step towards a stifling political correctness that will ultimately kill the free-spirit that makes the internet so valuable.
Guests
Tim O'Reilly,
founder and president of O'Reilly Media. This week he and Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, drafted a Bloggers Code of Conduct and it has created quite a stir in the blogosphere.
Michael Arrington, editor of the Web site TechCrunch, which tracks new companies and products that impact the web. He also writes a blog called CrunchNotes.
