All the big business collapses over the last few years have exposed the lack of moral code & ethics in a lot of corporations, not to mention very unsatisfactory business models. It appears that business needs a core of ethics & integrity to thrive and enjoy long term success. Ethics are not optional because we work & live with other human beans! TechCrunch recently had a great post by Vivek Wadhwa titled Integrating Ethics Into The Core Of Your Startups: Why And How which raised the issue of integrity & authenticity in business. He identifies a few issues:
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There have been a few conversations on the net this past week about advertising and ad blocking. Many people have been complaining that ad blocking is hurting good sites who depend on advertising revenue. Ars Technica posted an article ‘Why Ad Blocking is devastating to the sites you love’. They thought that people were using ad block with malice but the results of a 12hour experiment they ran, where content disappeared for visitors using ad blocking software. The results were interesting: