Meryl's Notes Blog

The cost of ethics discusses companies sponsoring and paying bloggers to mentioned its products and services. As you know, I’ve been discussing Marqui every week since December. However, I do have my own code of ethics, which is identical to the six listed in the article:

• Disclose, disclose, disclose. Transparency—of actions, motives and financial considerations—is the golden rule of the blogosphere.

• Follow your passions. Blog about topics you care deeply about.

• Be honest. Write what you believe.

• Trust your readers to form their own judgments and conclusions.

• Reputation is the principal currency of cyberspace. Maintain your independence and integrity—lost trust is difficult to regain.

I explained my beliefs and why I am doing this in the first entry. After doing this for almost three months, I would do it again. Simply because I have a family to support and I know I’m an honest person who can report things as I see them not as what the sponsors think I should say.