Published: Wednesday July 28, 2010 MYT 2:22:00 PM
KUALA LUMPUR: Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad has called on bloggers to adhere to a certain code of ethics and ensure their blog articles are backed by truth in order for blogs to become a respected medium for the betterment of the society.
The former prime minister said the blogging ethics should be voluntary because these were for the bloggers' own good and from which they would build their reputation in the eyes of the people.
Dr Mahathir, himself a blogger, said the society had access to blogs, a medium which he said was "almost beyond the control of any authority", and that if bloggers were ethical and wrote the truth, more people would make blogs their source of information.
If bloggers adhered to these ethics, he said, "I think eventually people will come to respect blogs."
"If we are not saying the truth, people will desert blogs like (how they desert) the ordinary media today," he said in his keynote address at the Asian Bloggers and Social Media Conference 2010, here Wednesday.
The two-day conference, themed "Reflections of the Social Media Revolution", is being attended by about 400 people across Asia.
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/7/28/nation/20100728142756&sec=nation
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