Twitter Hacked, TechCrunch Releases Sensitive Documents; Ethical?

twitter-hackwe profile existing companies that are making an impact (commercial and/or cultural) on the new web space. - TechCrunch

We know Techcrunch has gone way beyond that over the years. Thanks to our dear Michael Arrington who has his own philosophical ways of adapting quotes and tread a fine line between 'ethical' and 'unethical' with his own chalk. Anyway, our viewers will decide that. The story is, this time a hacker has hacked into Twitter accounts and extracted sensitive details and sent it to Techcrunch. And they, after being in a cooked up and made up dilemma, have decided to publish some of the confidential documents that can really embarrass organizations and twitter itself.

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Is Topix losing its Relevance?

topixIts been only a few months since we have talked about Code of conduct for bloggers and if we should have it now. It was directed towards the opinion of bloggers and its contents rather than the original news source. I thought that we can rely on the online news sites to be more careful and responsible for whatever news come to their site coz they are read by millions of people every day. But it seems like I was wrong. Last evening while browsing through the internet to get the local news, I logged into topix.com. It has a Google PR 8 and Alexa Rank of 870. So its potentially viewed by millions, right? And just at the front page I found this news which shocked me to death. The first article on the recent discussion column was like this -  'HOT WOMAN UNSATISFIED SEX WITH HUSBAND . SAFE SEX CALL…'. My first reaction was just like yours. What the hell is it doing here along with other important news? And then came the question, is it safe enough to say to your child to be habituated with online newsletters? At least traditional media won't let your child to go through such kind of voyeurism. Are we ready yet? Full article (675 words) »
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