Please note, this is a personal opinion piece and should not be taken to necessarily represent or reflect the views of any other contributors to or administrators of Culch.ie. An article appeared in this week’s New York Times that has made me ridiculously happy. While it’s not something that everyone will appreciate or recognise as being important, I believe the points it raises are of extreme importance to the future of a certain type of blogging, in how both bloggers and readers engage online and it will make things that bit more interesting and honest. In an article entitled “Soon, Bloggers Must Give Full Disclosure“, journalist Tim Arango describes how “The government will seek to slow the spread of false “word of mouth” promotions in exchange for product samples.” “I think that bloggers definitely need to be held accountable… I think there is a certain level of trust that bloggers … There’s more →