A Blog Code of Ethics

Update:

Toulmin was appar­ently quoted out of context in the original story and the BBC has changed their story to show a more balanced opinion.

The Press Complaints Commission director Tim Toulmin thinks blogs should be covered by a vol­un­tary code of practice like that for UK news­pa­pers. The BBC reports that he made the remarks

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We Need a Sceptic

[Update: some of the links that were below don’t work anymore, so I’ve removed them]

Dead 2.0 is a funny tech blog. The author posts anonym­ously under the name ‘Skeptic’, and enjoys deflating the hype around Web 2.0 startups with posts like ‘Funding the Web 2.0 gravy train’ and ‘Secret to why you should invest in

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Yahoo! and China

Wondered about Yahoo! and China? Censored search results? Shopping journ­al­ists to a com­munist state machine?

Here’s what a company spokes­person told me:

“Yahoo! opposes the pun­ish­ment of any person on the grounds of what may be called free speech. We firmly oppose that. However, we have to abide by the local laws of whatever country we

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