Ars Technica, 28 Jun 2009, John Timmer
A few years ago, Tim O'Reilly kicked off a bit of a firestorm when he suggested that there should be a blogger code of conduct and offered some helpful suggestions for items that might appear in that code. Not everyone agreed that blogging needed anything of the sort, and each of the proposed items attracted its own bit of criticism. The lack of agreement on a formal code (or even on whether such a thing should exist), however, doesn't necessarily mean that bloggers haven't adopted some form of informal behavioral standards. A survey of over 1,000 bloggers performed by researchers from Singapore suggests that informal codes do exist, despite the fact that bloggers themselves don't see accountability as a major goal.
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