EVIL CYBORGS ATTACK!

Remember, THIS is what your linking to the IMPORTANT EVIL CYBORG STORY might protect!

Remember, Prominent Bloggers thinking of running with the IMPORTANT STORY that Rebecca MacKinnon of Harvard's Beckman Center is an EVIL CYBORG who means to destroy the Blogosphere and enjoys snacking on kittens....

YOU WOULD HAVE NO ETHICAL PROBLEM WHATSOEVER IN DOING SO.

I've adopted the following Code of Bloggerly Ethics from a source whse own ETHICAL INTEGRITY IS UNIMPEACHABLE:

1. Just because we link to something does not mean we endorse it.

2. We link to things online that we find interesting and worth further discussion or examination before and during the conference. We do not fact-check articles, blog posts, and other online material before linking to them.

3. We welcome comments that will help to fact-check the material we have linked to.

4. The information, ideas, and opinions found on this blog are the authors’ own. They are not official positions of Harvard, The Berkman Center, The Shorenstein Center, or the American Library Institute. They're not your positions, either. If someone, say, turns out not to be an evil cyborg after all, hah! Who knew? Not your problem, anyway.

5. Meaning that you could link to any completely uncourced, unreliable, and possibly even libellous tripe and you will be IN THE ABSOLUTE MORAL AND ETHICAL CLEAR. HURRAY FOR BLOGGERLY ETHICS!!!

Your ass, is, you see, thus pretty damn covered.

OOOH! My tire guy who gave me the story about the evil cyborg warns me that the kittens are scared!!!

PLEASE!!! THINK OF THE KITTENS!!!

You will be shocked to learn that Rebecca MacKinnon, of the Harvard Blogging, Journalism, & Credibility Conference at Harvard's Berkman Center, is...

AN EVIL CYBORG INTENT ON DEVOURING THE BLOGOSPHERE!!!! AND SHE EATS KITTENS!!!! REALLY, REALLY CUTE KITTENS!!!!

I heard this from this guy, you know. He's a real good guy. VERY reliable.

OH! Won't some prominent blogger pick this story up from this slapdash blog, so the story can duly ping around the blogosphere until it flies upwards, as if by MAGIC, into the Journalistic Credibility Stratosphere, to end up tickling Bob Novak's prostate so He, the Paladin of Credibility, might WARN THE WORLD about this threat to blogs!!!

And kittens.

OH! Won't some high-tier blogger (I'm looking at you, Mr. Reynolds!) RUN with this important story, and thus become the hero of the Blogosphere?

Hell, you won't even have to bother fact-checking this IMPORTANT STORY. That guy I know is really reliable, DARN trustworthy. Gets me a good deal on retread tires, too.

PLEASE!!!! WON'T YOU THINK OF THE KITTENS!!!

The kittens are ADORABLE and do not deserve to be eaten by an EVIL CYBORG!!!!

The blogosphere, eh, yeah, save that too, I guess.