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A declaration of bloggerdom

Ed sug­gested in a Metafil­ter thread that we come up with a blog­ging vow of chastity sim­i­lar to the one Dogme film-makers did in 1995. Here’s my stab at a first draft of this:

Dec­la­ra­tion of bloggerdom

  1. We are bloggers.
  2. We are individuals.
  3. We are not for sale
  4. We are not a tar­get market.
  5. We link to sites because we find them inter­est­ing, not because we think we’ll get free goods or money out of our links.
  6. If we have a rela­tion­ship with a product/company/service/person we link to, we will dis­close it in the same post.
  7. We believe in contributing.
  8. We believe in truth.
  9. Our writ­ing is our own. Our words are our own.
  10. Like them or not, our opin­ions are our own, too.

It’s a start. But does it need more?

Originally published on March 4, 2003 in Business, Personal . You may find related thoughts pieces under the following terms: ,