ethics

This week I’ve been thinking a lot of social sharing and the self-censorship I practice when it comes to talking about brand names on my social profiles. One of the opportunities gained in working at a large PR firm — with capabilities spanning strategic communications,…

Last week’s Minnesota Interactive Marketing Association (MIMA) event featured a lively discussion about ethics and law. The event exemplified the fact that there still exists a large gulf between what is ethical and what is legal, and that marketers need to continue asking themselves every…

From the AP, we learn that the FTC is contemplating plans to monitor bloggers for potential conflicts of interest due to non-disclosure of commercial relationships: It would be the first time the FTC tries to patrol systematically what bloggers say and do online. The common…

Social media depends on the essential goodness of people and their willingness to selflessly contribute to a community instead of just taking all they can get without recompense. But people are flawed, selfish and venal, so how does social media actually work? We spend a…

Media critic Jeff Jarvis on a new policy from the Associated Press that has bloggers up in arms and is sparking a boycott: The AP has filed truly noxious takedown notices against Rogers Cadenhead’s community-created Drudge Retort [a social media news aggregator not affiliated with…

OP-ED COLUMNBy Stingray I’ve known news reporter/editor Matt Drudge’s Web site, The Drudge Report, for some time, but these past few weeks, I’ve found myself checking it a few times a day — sometimes more. You may remember hearing of the site back in 1998,…