Comments on: Blog Ethics Committee - Not http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2004/11/23/blog-ethics-committee-not/ Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:43:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Bene Diction http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2004/11/23/blog-ethics-committee-not/#comment-3287 Bene Diction Wed, 24 Nov 2004 01:50:42 +0000 http://ss75.shared.server-system.net/~benedictionblogson.com/?p=1093#comment-3287 Money,writing and I have an uneasy relationship. Too much blurring for my taste. When I have a station manager yelling at me because I put in a car recall story and the model is one a sponsor sells, I have a problem. Blogging is expensive, and it is a price I'm willing to pay because personally I need to be free of any clutter and entanglement. Again, that's just me and my boundaries, if others wish to make money that's cool. Blog on! Money,writing and I have an uneasy relationship.
Too much blurring for my taste.
When I have a station manager yelling at me because I put in a car recall story and the model is one a sponsor sells, I have a problem.

Blogging is expensive, and it is a price I’m willing to pay because personally I need to be free of any clutter and entanglement. Again, that’s just me and my boundaries, if others wish to make money that’s cool. Blog on!

]]> By: Greenman http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2004/11/23/blog-ethics-committee-not/#comment-3286 Greenman Tue, 23 Nov 2004 23:56:20 +0000 http://ss75.shared.server-system.net/~benedictionblogson.com/?p=1093#comment-3286 I started blogging as an exercise for a creative writing course that I was doing at the time and have continued because I enjoy it. If I could work out a way to earn a significant income from the blog without compromising my creative writing I would jump at it. As it is the ads cover the hosting fees for the site which is good in itself. This is a bit like the agonising that some ministers have over seeking money from the congregation. I believe I am delivering something of value, maybe small but still significant, and there is nothing inappropriate with receiving money in exchange for that value. I have ethics about how I conduct the blog but they are my ethics, not some imposed by an external body. My readership can decide if they are acceptable or not. I started blogging as an exercise for a creative writing course that I was doing at the time and have continued because I enjoy it.

If I could work out a way to earn a significant income from the blog without compromising my creative writing I would jump at it. As it is the ads cover the hosting fees for the site which is good in itself.

This is a bit like the agonising that some ministers have over seeking money from the congregation. I believe I am delivering something of value, maybe small but still significant, and there is nothing inappropriate with receiving money in exchange for that value.

I have ethics about how I conduct the blog but they are my ethics, not some imposed by an external body. My readership can decide if they are acceptable or not.

]]> By: Richard Hall http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2004/11/23/blog-ethics-committee-not/#comment-3285 Richard Hall Tue, 23 Nov 2004 20:04:35 +0000 http://ss75.shared.server-system.net/~benedictionblogson.com/?p=1093#comment-3285 I'll pass too. I’ll pass too.

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