TWO influential Netizens, tech publisher Tim O’Reilly and Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, have called on bloggers to work together in coming up with a Blogger’s Code of Conduct.
Check out Abe Olandres’ blog entry on this initiative.
And here’s an excerpt from a Guardian Unlimited story:
While I was offline all long weekend, the blog code of conduct debate snowballed somewhat. Web veteran Tim O’Reilly waded in to the debate hand-in-hand with Wikipedia Daddy Jimmy Wales, and between the two of them came up with a seven point list of standards.
Needless to say, opinion seems to be ferociously divided on this. I personally see these as standards, rather than rules, and these are all opt-in. So if you don’t like it, don’t use it. It’s about a loose a proposal as possible.
How about you, what do you think of the proposed Blogger’s Code of Conduct?
April 17th, 2007 at 9:19 am
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April 16th, 2007 at 10:12 am
i tried doing a paper about the Bloggers’ Rights. when i submitted my topic proposal, all i was thinking was I was against the Rights because it means there i an existing problem that is linked to it. however, as by a week, i cannot finish my two page paper, less, i cannot even get my thoughts is place. i was torn and cannot decipher what i really want and where i would like my readers to be led into. other words i never finished the paper.
but maybe i was wrong. maybe i really didnt want the Rights but i needed to be introduced to the Code of Conduct instead. it speaks more of responsible blogging rather than asking someone to censor you when you write. for me blogging is the equivalent of speech haven, free speech should be the rule in the blog world, and having rights means someone is trying to manipulate us (just that it is going on the positive sense since it is a set of Rights).
am i making any sense? hehe! =o)
April 14th, 2007 at 11:13 pm
in some way, having a means of rules to follow or a more appropriate term would be guidelines instead of rules would be really helpful. however, it does coincide with what the freedom of speech in blogging is all about.
sad to say though, there had been quite a number of incidents where bloggers tend to abuse this and no rule can stand against it.
in the end, we go back to what a “responsible blogger” should be.
it’s a good thing we get to tackle about these kind of stuffs now that blogging had become a wild fire in the net.
April 12th, 2007 at 12:04 pm
I think not. It just defeats the purpose of blogging. Especially personal blogging. The Blogger’s Disclaimer/Comment Policy should be enough for everyone. Setting a “standard/code” is just plain ludicrous. We all have our own way of dealing with hate comments; we all have our own level of tolerance for such things; we all have our own meaning of “unacceptable content”. That being said, we should be responsible for what we say. But isn’t that already an “unwritten rule”? And really, it’s like saying that some people are not worthy to be called responsible bloggers if they don’t follow this so-called code of conduct. It’s not as if the incidence of cyber-bullying will cease or decrease. And it’s not as if everyone will follow or even agree with the code. How pointless, if that’s the case.
“Formalize blogging behavior”? Again, that defeats the whole point in blogging. I know I should elaborate more, but there are already tons of reactions in the blogosphere about this, and they all have a point. I’ll probably expound on this in an interview, sighs.
Good thing this is only a code — more of a standard than a rule. Good for them people who support this initiative, but I don’t need it, thankyouverymuch.
April 12th, 2007 at 7:18 am
[...] call for bloggers to adopt a code of conduct was picked up by the media and bloggers, including Blog Addicts, which I contribute to. I wrote a reaction to Blog Addict’s post by Joey Alarrila. [...]
April 12th, 2007 at 6:44 am
Be responsible. That’s essentially what Tim OReilly is saying in this proposed code of conduct for bloggers. I remember stumbling upon a similar proposal from cyberjournalist.net before. you can check this out: http://www.cyberjournalist.net/news/000215.php
There are indeed unwritten rules in blogging. But as O’Reilly says it is time to write them down to “formalize blogging behavior.” One thing that strikes me is his suggestion that we should not blog things that we wouldn’t say in person. That again falls on being a responsible blogger. It is clear that the same code we journalists practice is now being applied to blogging.