THANK YOU and WELCOME!

I want to thank all of you who have been stopping and sharing your thoughts, especially Eric Muller and Thomas Beckett who have posted announcements about this study on their sites: IsThatLegal and Smart Mobs. I would also like to thank Paul Jones, the professor who opened my eyes to the virtual communities. The "contributors" list in the sidebar is comprised of the blogs belonging to those who have shared their beliefs about blog ethics either by publicly commenting on the five questions below or by e-mailing me directly.

As for those visiting for the first time, I hope you will take a few moments and share your thoughts about blogging ethics. Below are five questions. I invite you post your answers as a public comment or to email me at mgkuhn@email.unc.edu. I will be posting my completed paper on this blog in January so you can publicly comment on my findings.

FYI: If you would like to read two codes of Blogging Ethics I would recommend A Bloggers' Code of Ethics proposed by Johnathan Dube at CyberJournalist.net, and the six standards of weblog ethics proposed by Rebecca Blood in her 2002 book, the weblog handbook.