Mitch Ratcliffe made a very good point about recent ethical lapses in blogging and it was good to see Doc Searls making amends.

For what it is worth, I do think that many professional journalists also have strong conflicts of interest. Ratclife kinda blurred that. But what for me differentiated blogging was that the majority of bloggers with a large following seemed to have a strong sense of integrity.

Update: In this context, I really liked Mark Pilgrim's post and Dorothea Salo's post that he referred to in his.