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Rookie Blogger of the Year – We Won!!!

Imma Let You Finish

Well, the results have come in and I’m very happy to say that Future Conscience has won the Rookie Blogger of the Year contest that was being held by Tycoon Blogger!  Have to say a big thank you to everybody who voted for us, with 23% of the vote we certainly have been encouraged to continue doing what we’ve been doing – just even more so!

Winning this competition will give us quite a few more incoming links and free advertising space, so I’m thinking of ways to improve our content to match the new traffic levels that we’ve already started to see.  If anybody has any ideas or suggestions for improvement we would love to hear from you in the comments.

For those of you who are just coming across the site, and for others who may not have gone through our archives, here’s five of the best:

1) Ethical Blogging series (actually 6 articles!)

2) Nanotechnology and the social implications of immortality

3) Tweetivism: social justice or internet lynch-mob?

4) 5 signs that you may belong to a dangerous cult

5) Are we still educating kids to go out and conquer the 1980s?

Thanks again for everybody who voted!  Spread the word and let others know about Future Conscience – it sounds obvious but the site is here to be read, so the more people who see it the better!  One thing I would like to improve are the number of comments we get, so please if you are a regular reader we would love to hear from you.  We want to build up discussion around the topics raised, and any input you may have would be greatly appreciated.

Now, off to make some 125×125 banner ads for us to have dotted around the blogosphere!

Ethics Newsline posts a Blogger’s Code of Ethics

Blogging This (image by Foxtongue - Flickr - CC)

Ethics is an important part of the aims of Future Conscience, and the ethics of the internet is something that we have been covering quite considerably.  Over the past few months, I’ve put together a series of posts on ethical blogging as a way to try and promote a more beneficial and positive way of using what the internet has to offer us.

Ethics Newsline, which is a part of the two decade old Institute for Global Ethics, has recently thrown their hat into the ethical blogging ring with a post by Rushworth Kidder.  This post attempts to formulate a universal code of blogging ethics in order to make the blogosphere a better place for everybody involved.

The code relies on five ideals, that each relate to various actions and ways to go about our blogging.  The ideals are:  respect; responsibility; honesty; fairness; compassion.  They’ve done a pretty nice job of formulating a very base level ethical framework for bloggers, and I definitely recommend that anybody who blogs, or even reads blogs, should go over and check it out in more detail.

Of course, I can’t let this opportunity go by without also mentioning the posts here on Future Conscience – so once you’ve gone and had a look at the Blog-Posters Code of Ethics, make sure to come back here and check out our series on Ethical Blogging!

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Ethical Blogging Series Roundup

The series on ethical blogging here at Future Conscience has proved to be quite popular. I’ve decided to do a quick roundup of the posts done so far; mainly so that new readers are able to catch up on what’s been done already. Here’s what we’ve covered so far.Continue Reading

Ethical Blogging: Promoting your site

Building a successful website really requires two core things: good content and good marketing. Without good content, nobody is going to want to visit your site more than once. But without good marketing, nobody will visit your site at all.Continue Reading

Ethical Blogging: Climate change, blogging for the common good

Those of you paying attention might have questioned why we didn’t have an ethical blogging post yesterday – being Wednesday and all. Well, the reason is that I wanted to save the post for Blog Action Day ’09, an annual event where bloggers unite to bring attention to an issue of global importance.Continue Reading

Ethical Blogging: Affiliate Marketing

For this week’s entry on ethical blogging I’m going to take a lot at an aspect of monetisation that is proving very popular: affiliate marketing.

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