Blogger Ethics

It seems to me that it is peculiar that the Ancient and Illuminated Seers of Harvard University are hosting a Conference on Blogging, Journalism and Credibility where attendance is by invitation only, when blogging is for all intents and purposes a folk art.

Whether or not the allegation that certain liberal bloggers took payola from the Dean campaign amounts to anything more than a ploy for attention by a scandalmonger that got picked up by the right-wing noise machine, it is ridiculous to have the question of blogging-for-pay at the top of the queue of ethics problems facing bloggers.

The single most important ethical issue faced by bloggers today, the one the most bloggers deal with on a day-by-day basis, is this:

If a total stranger friends my LJ, do I have to friend him or her back again?

Let's keep it real, folks.