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Blog Comment Ethics Dilemma

Assuming I write a blog where I post the occasional restaurant review (and I do). And assuming there’s the occasional unfavorable review (there is). What if someone comments on such a review, totally disagrees with me, raves about the restaurant and calls me a nitwit. Do I approve said comment? Sure! But …

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Nackt unter Journalisten

I fianally yielded to social pressure (”*Have* you read Spiegel on social networks?!”) and actually bought 10/2009 of German weekly Der Spiegel to read what they feel needs to be said about life in online communities. And I shouldn’t have.

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Aw, come on, let’s close down the internet already

ZDF Spezial had rather weird things to say about the internet a pro pos of the Winnenden massacre. First of all, the reporters appeared half surprised, half disappointed that the gunman had virtually no internet footprint: no hints, no threats, no weird social networking profiles. At least he appears to have played ego shooters every [...]

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