Category: Random Musing

Stuck.

Tulan-ness.

On my way back from lunch with Ah Suan and ST. Seriously the best char siu fan I’ve ever had. The meat literally melts in your mouth!! KY posted about it here. Seriously a must try.

My hair is so nice now right, hik hik hik.

Just a little survey…

Do you feel that I’m cheating when I write paid advertorials without disclosing that it’s an advertorial?

The reason why I don’t disclose is because I choose my advertorials with care. It could be because I couldn’t accept the client’s tyrannical way of dictating my post or I simply don’t and won’t believe in the products/services. So each and every advertorial that I’ve written, I consider as my own original content.

Some people feel really strongly about putting the disclosure clause in the post, as if it’s a one liner answer to all ethical issues on the blogosphere, which in my humble opinion is a LOAD OF CRAP.

Honey, there is simply no space for ethics or credibility on the Internet. We are our own ethics. We are our own credibility. Each and everyone of us, behind the computer. Without us, there’s nothing on the Internet.

Until some higher being overrules bloggers in this matter, I will not fail to impose my own ethics and rules onto my own blog.

Reminder, you are not the higher being.

The truth is, I’ve considered putting the disclosure line if I were writing a partial review, but that’s just me. So far I’ve been fortunate enough not to have to do that. That said, I respect and will defend the choice that other bloggers are making in this respect, whether they want to disclose or not. The last thing I want is someone or something to take away that choice we have as bloggers.

Can you imagine what it would be like if we were saddled with the rules and ethics of the traditional media? Can we still call ourselves the new media? The rules are different here, accept it. Learn to manage it instead of complaining how unethical or lack of credibility we are because that’s not what you normally have to deal with when it comes to the traditional media.

Yes it’s a volatile, scary sphere, which is also why it’s so amazing.

I’m a blog. My readers are here to read what I’m saying. I’m the opinion leader of this little space. If you think that my blog is cheating off your trust because I did not disclose what I’m writing as advertorials, I kindly ask you to leave this blog, because you have also insulted me as a person.