The Ethics of Cyber “Citizen Journalism”
One of my colleagues recently held a panel on the impact of “citizen journalism” on the mainstream media. This panel began a discussion led to ethics of citizen journalism and what influence the ethics code of journalists would have on this new breed of journalism. This topic turned to the three key issues that has fueled and will continue to fuel the growth in this field; exposure, equipment, and exchange of funds. As long as there is a distribution method available for these journalists, as long as technology is made portable and affordable for the general public, and as long there is a market for information, there will be an influx of citizen journalism. News organizations, as mentioned my friend, will need to overlay the ethical values of their organization in order to air the submissions.
However, the question that I wish to pose is what ethical standards should cyber “citizen journalist” follow? Should they mimic their professional brethren and follow the code established for them (e.g. http://www.spj.org/ethics_code.asp), follow a personal set of beliefs or perhaps something in the middle? I would think the best bit of advice to this group would be to follow a tenement of the medical field, do no harm.
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Peakclick PPC program review
A few months ago I have discovered Peakclick.
I was very skeptical, because almost all PPC programs I tried before were not even making 30% of adsense. Once you login, one of the first thing you notice on Peakclick is the top webmaster section where you see that some guys are making $2000/day with the program. So you say “yes, it is possible” and give program a try. First you don’t make so much, since after you join you have the “Not Approved” flag which prevents you from getting all ads. However, in a few weeks you get approved and income starts to raise.
One of the best part of this program is that you have a lot of freedom. You can use javascript codes, XML feeds, premade google doorways, etc. You can even create some kind of adsense codes by generating feeds automatically based on page keywords.
Another good thing about program is that you get paid twice a month, even more often if you make requests and many payment methods are supported such as: Epassporte, wire transfers, Webmoney, Western Union, check by mail, Fethard.
In my opinion this is the second program after adsense that you should use(I didn’t check YPN yet).
Awesome!