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:
IN SPACE, no one can hear you scream. But you can still blog, heh.
US billionaire Charles Simonyi, who helped develop Microsoft Word and Excel, has arrived at the International Space Station as a space tourist, and he’s blogging about his out-of-this-world experience.
Here’s an excerpt from his entry on launch day:
I JUST found out this week that blogging is already 10 years old (13 for some).
To celebrate blogging’s birthday, I thought of starting a social experiment. This requires you to respond with a short description of how you got hooked on blogging. Let’s limit it to 50 words.
Let me start:
My daughter was born three years ago. It was the scariest yet most heartwarming feeling I had and I didn’t want to forget about it. So I opened a blog, and started typing away… I got hooked on blogging ever since!
FILIPINOS are observing the Holy Week and that means a long holiday for most people, except for us journalists and bloggers, heh 
Here are a couple of interesting blog entries about Holy Week in the Philippines.
Bob Martin of the Mindanao.com Blog has this to say:
I GOT this e-mail message from fellow Blog Addicts blogger Jayvee Fernandez of A Bugged Life:
I did a podcast (BuggedCast Episode 2) with a friend who owns one of the biggest PR agencies here in the Philippines. It’s all about bloggers having equal privileges as journalists. Thought you guys would be interested.
This is really not the first time that bloggers are now treated as journalists. But not many bloggers would want to be considered as journalists because the latter have to adhere to a code of ethics. Jayvee’s podcast features PR executive Geiser Maclang talking about her work as a “publicist” and how PR firms are gradually tapping bloggers for publicity. It is an interesting and intriguing discussion.
Highlights:
AS Catholics all over the world observe Holy Week, Bo Sanchez is not only fasting, but also blogging to encourage others to pray and fast this Lenten season.
Here’s an excerpt from his fasting journal:
I’m writing my fasting journal to you, to encourage you in your own prayer & fasting this Holy Week. This is my second day of 7 days of prayer & fasting.
This year, I’m taking a lighter—but healthier—type of fast: The Juice fast. (I did a “water only” fast years ago and I loved it, but I think it was too harsh for the body. In a “water only” fast, toxins are released too quickly and it shocks the system. In a juice fast, the toxins bind themselves with the juices and they get gently flushed out of the body.)
This year, I was a good boy and prepared for my fast well. About 3 days before my fast, I began eating smaller meals and avoided refined sugar—ice cream, pastries, etc.—to avoid withdrawal symptoms—which causes headaches, etc.
ONE of the things that struck me most while covering the Philippine Blog Awards Saturday night was the invocation of Fr. Stephen Cuyos, who is himself a blogger and podcast host.
At times as humorous as it was heartfelt, the good priest’s prayer was a timely reminder of our need to be responsible bloggers. Sure, we blog for different reasons, and as I’ve said many times, including in this blog post for CNET Asia, bloggers are not journalists, and journalists, even though we may blog, are journalists first, with different standards, different values, than bloggers.
This does not mean, however, that we cannot celebrate our differences, and learn from each other. Frankly, the danger I see now in everyone’s mad rush to become bloggers, and of companies, politicians and other groups to court the favor of bloggers, is that people may no longer see the need for objectivity, or learn to distinguish press releases from real stories.
OK, we’ve heard of blog addicts, but this 23-year-old guy in San Francisco takes the cake.
Not content with plain old blogging and vlogging (that’s short for video blogging), 23-year-old Justin Kan is showing his life to the whole world via online video, 24 hours a day, seven times a week. It’s Justin.tv, and for now, people are watching.
Some people live blog. This guy is “lifecasting.” Justin put a camera on his head so that he can chronicle everything he does everyday — and I mean everything, including bathroom breaks.
