A positive conclusion re my ‘cease and desist’ post yesterday. WSUN Technologies responded immediately to my request to stop using my content on their blog without permission: […] WSUN Technologies does not tolerate copyright infringement of any kind. The violating user has been banned and their rss.xml has been deleted…
I’ve just sent my first formal ‘cease and desist’ request to a company that appears to be ripping off my content and publishing it as if it were their own. Maybe ‘cease and desist’ isn’t the right phrase (I’m not a lawyer) but the polite email I’ve sent (full text…
Content summary: Two podcasts recorded at The Future of Journalism – Ethics in Journalism panel discussion in Amsterdam on June 28, 2006, organized by the Club of Amsterdam and supported by PricewaterhouseCoopers. The first podcast recorded the presentations made by each of the three panelists; the second is the open…
Heading off shortly to PriceWaterhouseCooper’s office in Amsterdam for the Future of Journalism / Ethics in Journalism panel session organized by the Club of Amsterdam. I’m speaking on that panel and participating in the open discussion. Imagine: a PR guy talking about ethics and journalism, alongside journalists, to an audience with…
Like most Windows users, I have my PCs set up to get security and other critical patches from Microsoft automatically. It seems the most sensible thing to do so you don’t need to remember to manually go to Windows Update to check if your OS needs updating. Part of the…
Here’s a very useful new feature from Microsoft and Creative Commons, announced yesterday – the ability to embed a Creative Commons copyright license directly in your Word, PowerPoint or Excel file. This is something I’ve been doing for a while, especially with PowerPoint presentations. But it’s been a manual process and…
A new report from the IABC Research Foundation shows that less than half of companies encourage discussion of moral dilemmas and criticism of censurable conduct at the workplace. “The Business of Truth: A Guide to Ethical Communication” says most organizations maintain or practice a generally healthy climate for ethical concerns…
Nothing is sacred on the internet, not the words you write and publish in your blog nor the pictures you take and upload to Flickr. I’m talking about plagiarism: Plagiarism is the passing off of another person’s work as one’s own, whether deliberate or accidental. Accidental plagiarism is usually the…
