Blog with Integrity – take the pledge!
Do you blog? Check out the brand spanking new Blog with Integrity website. This site came out of concerns over many bloggers accepting free products or services in exchange for a positive review on their blogs, receiving free trips or dinners from interested advertisers, getting undisclosed ad revenues, never posting negative things (only positive things), plagiarizing others’ work, and other generally skeevy things to do.
The site asks bloggers to take the pledge (basically a sensible code of conduct), which you can read here. If you take the pledge, you can put the “Blog with Integrity” badge on your site (I guess they know how much we like badges). The goal is to have bloggers disclose who they receive stuff from to disclose any potential biases, to respect readers, to take responsibility for our words, to be honest, and respect intellectual property rights. Basically, all the stuff that would happen if librarians and journalists had an intellectual baby 
Take the pledge…I did.
July 29th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
I’m one of the founders of blog with Integrity. Thank you for taking the pledge and spreading the word to your community.
August 18th, 2009 at 5:50 am
It sounds like a great idea. I’ve been looking for a way to prove to schools and librarians that my website is teen-appropriate and user-friendly and generally clean-cut.
But is this all that’s out there? Does anyone know of other similar measures that can be taken to prove one’s integrity on the Internet?
September 2nd, 2009 at 11:06 pm
Sarah, Thanks for this recommendation. It came to me at just the right time.
September 8th, 2009 at 10:46 pm
It sounds like blogging is making a nod to old school journalism. I say “Bravo!”