15Aug
Damien tweeted this so I made my own, and here it is…
This policy is valid from 15 August 2008
This blog is a personal blog written and edited by me. For questions about this blog, please contact Stu.
This blog does not accept any form of advertising, sponsorship, or paid insertions. We write for our own purposes. However, we may be influenced by our background, occupation, religion, political affiliation or experience.
The owner(s) of this blog will never receive compensation in any way from this blog.
The owner(s) of this blog is not compensated to provide opinion on products, services, websites and various other topics. The views and opinions expressed on this blog are purely the blog owners. If we claim or appear to be experts on a certain topic or product or service area, we will only endorse products or services that we believe, based on our expertise, are worthy of such endorsement. Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer or provider. The owner(s) of this blog would like to disclose the following existing relationships. These are companies, organizations or individuals that may have a significant impact on the content of this blog. We are employed by or consult with: X Communications.
To get your own policy, go to http://www.disclosurepolicy.org
What do you think? Is this even necessary?
This made me laugh a little – for you Stu, I doubt it’s necessary, as there’s clearly no advertising on your site. Your opinions are clearly your own. You don’t review many things, and you certainly don’t hold yourself as an over-serious “I Blog for the good of the nation” type.
I laughed looking at the original disclosure (esp: “The compensation received may influence the … topics or posts made in this blog [and] …may not be identified as paid or sponsored content.”, which is being honest about the possibility that opinions may be dishonest as they could be paid for…
— by bren posted on Aug 15th, 2008 at 1:49 pm | #