Over at Unity’s place, a well-argued piece in response to Tessa Jowell’s article in the Guardian on a code of conduct for blogs.
Right now, I am so fed up with this Government and its attempts to interfere in every aspect of our lives. As such, I lack the requisite energy even to comment on this crazy idea. Unity’s article gives Jowell a basic education in the nature of the internet, tackles her erroneous assumptions and (I hope) gives her plenty to think about. Highly recommended reading.
May 3rd, 2007 at 11:11 am
I agree with you Bel. But then again, we’re reasonable people who blog to share views and debate intelligently, so our blogs do not need codes of conduct as (touch wood) we only tend to get sensible debate.
If the situation ever arose where that changed, I would have to treat the stuation on its merits.
May 3rd, 2007 at 11:36 am
Interesting view, Joe.
Even for so-called ‘unreasonable, unintelligent’ blogs, I don’t see the need for a code of conduct. If someone’s blog is full of abuse etc, people who hate that sort of thing will stop going there. There is no need for a code of conduct. Avoid such blogs the same way you would cross the road to avoid an odious lout. In my view, that is more than enough.
May 3rd, 2007 at 1:16 pm
I would agree Bel, I still have that symbol of james Higham’s in my email inbox to dpwnload, but have been too busy of late. I simply meant that we have the right ourelves to decide what rules and what policy our blogs have.
I tend to avoid blogs where the average comment is five words long.
May 3rd, 2007 at 1:21 pm
“I tend to avoid blogs where the average comment is five words long.”
Yeah, like “great blog, come see mine!”
Seriously though, I agree with you that we should decide on our rules and policies for our blogs. Who needs the likes of Tessa Jowell coming to tell us how we may communicate with each other?