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Rebecca Blood proposes 6 standards in her article “Weblog Ethics”:

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, bu do not rewrite or delete, any entry.

5. Disclose any conflict of interest.

6. Note questionable and biased sources.

http://www.rebeccablood.net/handbook/excerpts/weblog_ethics.html

Dan Dillmor’s article “What ethics should bloggers have?” proposes “pillars og good journalism: thoroughness, accuracy, fairness, transparency and independence.” p.23-25

 Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-dissidents: Reporters without borders,September 2005 http://www.rsf.org/IMG/pdf/Bloggers_Handbook2.pdf

The weblog “Blogging Ethics” proposes a “Code of Blogging Ethics” or COBE:
* Promote interactivity

* Promote free expression

* Strive for factual truth

* Be as transparent as possible

* Promote the human element in blogging

http://blogethics2004.blogspot.com/

A code of ethics for blogging should be as dynamic as blogs themselves and perhaps the old saying maybe just as pertinent to the web reader – “Buyer beware!”