http://www.milesburke.com.au/blog/2006/07/17/blogging-and-ethics/ Thoughts on small business, the web industry and more, from Miles Burke, Author, Speaker, Entrepreneur and Geek. Sat, 04 Sep 2010 14:09:19 +0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://www.milesburke.com.au/blog/2006/07/17/blogging-and-ethics/comment-page-1/#comment-3612 Nick Cowie » Link for ? Wed, 19 Jul 2006 05:46:22 +0000 http://miles.burke.id.au/blog/?p=84#comment-3612 [...] So while I am willing to promote these books as a good introduction to CSS by authors that are both knowledgeable and passionate about the subject. I am not willing to add am image of one of the books to my blog for two reasons. One, because the truly elastic nature of this blog requires elastic images. Which means a lot more work from me, to get suitable images of both books. Secondly it is matter of morals I had started writing this post, when Miles posted Blogging Ethics and that is what this post is all about, you either blog about products, services or people you believe in or you blog for the monetary gain and you should tell people that you getting a financial reward. Contextual ads clearly marked as advertisements are one thing, but unmarked paid product placements are an evil that unfortunately will creep into blogging like it did in television, unless people take a stand. [...] [...] So while I am willing to promote these books as a good introduction to CSS by authors that are both knowledgeable and passionate about the subject. I am not willing to add am image of one of the books to my blog for two reasons. One, because the truly elastic nature of this blog requires elastic images. Which means a lot more work from me, to get suitable images of both books. Secondly it is matter of morals I had started writing this post, when Miles posted Blogging Ethics and that is what this post is all about, you either blog about products, services or people you believe in or you blog for the monetary gain and you should tell people that you getting a financial reward. Contextual ads clearly marked as advertisements are one thing, but unmarked paid product placements are an evil that unfortunately will creep into blogging like it did in television, unless people take a stand. [...]

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