Blogs should be about expressing open and fresh opinions. Like open source can do, it inspires creativity, innovation and for gods sake, personality and passion – something that traditional media is losing.

The only time I think any kind of guidelines are necessary (and note I say guidelines – a unstructured policy, not regulation), is when a large no of employees are blogging about their life at work – at a publicly traded company. They should have a set of guidelines to make sure they don’t break any laws around public company regulations at certain times of the calendar year.

Otherwise, my feeling is blog away. The unethical bloggers will fall through the cracks and will lose links over time. The readers will decide.