I don’t want to read this on the blog … This is for you and not for the blog … Just don’t blog about it … Off the record means off the blog.
These are just some of the statements which have preceeded meetings I take and phonecalls I receive since this blog really started attracting traffic (currently an average of 1,450 visits a day). Some people think that I blog anything I hear or am told. I don’t. These people don’t know me that well. Early in my blogging I found the Bloggers Code of Ethics at CyberJournalist and have tried to blog to those standards since.
I am told many things by newsagents, suppliers and others connected with the channel. I have a good sense of when someone tells me something hoping it will lead to a blog post. I tend to ignore these situations unless I think it would be genuinely inetresting or useful.