Comments on: Thinking about honesty in blogging… http://www.geek-speak.co.uk/2009/12/thinking-about-honesty-in-blogging/ Pure Geekery Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:57:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mike's Life http://www.geek-speak.co.uk/2009/12/thinking-about-honesty-in-blogging/comment-page-1/#comment-8191 Mike's Life Sat, 12 Dec 2009 10:37:12 +0000 http://www.geek-speak.co.uk/?p=2610#comment-8191 <strong>Mike's Life POW - 12th December 2009...</strong> Here we go for my posts of the week this week: 101 Motivational Business Quotes by Neil Patel on Quicksprout A great list to keep coming back to. But please promise me not to recycle them on Twitter for weeks! Are you a BAD blogger by Robert Br... Mike’s Life POW – 12th December 2009…

Here we go for my posts of the week this week:

101 Motivational Business Quotes

by Neil Patel on Quicksprout

A great list to keep coming back to. But please promise me not to recycle them on Twitter for weeks!

Are you a BAD blogger

by Robert Br…

]]> By: Chris H http://www.geek-speak.co.uk/2009/12/thinking-about-honesty-in-blogging/comment-page-1/#comment-8186 Chris H Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:14:45 +0000 http://www.geek-speak.co.uk/?p=2610#comment-8186 That actually reminds me of an old post I did about a woman exploring the wasteland around Chernobyl, only to find that she never actually did it. Quite embarrassing!<br><br>But back to this review - it's good to know others would have done the same thing :) I agree that it's important for people to know the whole story, then they can make up their own mind as to what to do but at least I know I've been as honest as possible. <br><br>By the way, the link to your own blog in the Disqus box doesn't seem to be working, but I'd love to see what you're writing - feel free to post a link here if you like. That actually reminds me of an old post I did about a woman exploring the wasteland around Chernobyl, only to find that she never actually did it. Quite embarrassing!

But back to this review – it's good to know others would have done the same thing :) I agree that it's important for people to know the whole story, then they can make up their own mind as to what to do but at least I know I've been as honest as possible.

By the way, the link to your own blog in the Disqus box doesn't seem to be working, but I'd love to see what you're writing – feel free to post a link here if you like.

]]> By: Chris H http://www.geek-speak.co.uk/2009/12/thinking-about-honesty-in-blogging/comment-page-1/#comment-8185 Chris H Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:11:49 +0000 http://www.geek-speak.co.uk/?p=2610#comment-8185 Thanks Mike - yeh, I certainly didn't want to get this one wrong... I'd have hated someone to have bought the app, had trouble, and thought I was a shoddy reviewer for not mentioning it! Thanks Mike – yeh, I certainly didn't want to get this one wrong… I'd have hated someone to have bought the app, had trouble, and thought I was a shoddy reviewer for not mentioning it!

]]> By: chompermom http://www.geek-speak.co.uk/2009/12/thinking-about-honesty-in-blogging/comment-page-1/#comment-8184 chompermom Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:23:11 +0000 http://www.geek-speak.co.uk/?p=2610#comment-8184 I ran in to a similar problem with a book review...Like many people (including Oprah) I was taken in by James Frey's "A Million Little Pieces". I loved the story, was moved and amazed that someone could go through all that and come out in one piece.<br><br>Come to find out, he didn't go through all that. He made most of it up. He wasn't a hardened drug user an criminal. He was a little wussy white boy who was in jail a few hours. It was sickening and embarrassing. I don't get a lot of readership, but I didn't want everyone knowing I had been so stupid as to believe it all.<br><br>But I left my good review on, and just added a note like you did, with links to Oprah's site and the Smoking Gun which had a detailed report. You can't just remove stuff, you're in search engines and other places. It's important for people to know the whole story, whatever it's about. I ran in to a similar problem with a book review…Like many people (including Oprah) I was taken in by James Frey's “A Million Little Pieces”. I loved the story, was moved and amazed that someone could go through all that and come out in one piece.

Come to find out, he didn't go through all that. He made most of it up. He wasn't a hardened drug user an criminal. He was a little wussy white boy who was in jail a few hours. It was sickening and embarrassing. I don't get a lot of readership, but I didn't want everyone knowing I had been so stupid as to believe it all.

But I left my good review on, and just added a note like you did, with links to Oprah's site and the Smoking Gun which had a detailed report. You can't just remove stuff, you're in search engines and other places. It's important for people to know the whole story, whatever it's about.

]]> By: Mike CJ http://www.geek-speak.co.uk/2009/12/thinking-about-honesty-in-blogging/comment-page-1/#comment-8183 Mike CJ Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:35:10 +0000 http://www.geek-speak.co.uk/?p=2610#comment-8183 I think you handled it exactly as you should have Chris, and I would have done the same. You just can't afford to get these things wrong. I think you handled it exactly as you should have Chris, and I would have done the same. You just can't afford to get these things wrong.

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