Blogger Responsibilities

In her book, “The Weblog Handbook: Practical Advice on Creating and Maintaining Your Blog,” Rebecca Blood was one of the first to publish guidelines for bloggers to remind them of the responsibilities they have to their audience, their blogging peers, and the integrity of the medium as a whole:

1. Publish as fact only that which you believe to be true.
2. If material exists online, link to it when you reference it.
3. Publicly correct any misinformation.
4. Write each entry as if it could not be changed; add to, but do not rewrite or delete, any entry.
5. Disclose any conflict of interest.
6. Note questionable and biased sources.