Write it down

With blogs so ever popular these days, it serves as an easy way to get your opinion voiced if you're looking to be a professional journalist, ranter, or just enjoy writing to let family and friends know what's up. But if you're looking to be on the professional side, Rebecca Blood makes a couple good points of "journalistic ethics" you should follow while blogging. I also like her point of if people wanted to accurately cite some blogs as credible sources some day in the future, then this type of online conduct should be followed. "1. Be truthful. 2. Link your references. 3. Correct mistakes. 4. Don't rewrite, delete, but add to writings. 5. Disclose conflicts of interest. 6. Note questionable and biased sources. I think following a set of rules like these can be a huge part of the blogging future and whether or not blogs be seen as professional and accurate sources. Danny threw out a couple of good statistics in his presentation today, one with around 10% of internet users are bloggers. We could see that number increase if blogs are used as credible sources someday and people are required to subscribe to blogs that they need for academic articles / professional sources.