Every once in awhile we have something of a muss-up behind the scenes here at IFB: some weird but inevitable violation of inter-blogger ethics and all of those unwritten rules of community conduct that needs to be addressed before things get out of hand.  Most recently we had a pretty egregious case of plagiarism so [...]

  Blogging can become very inclusive within a niche; within fashion blogging exists a niche of blogs dedicated to Anthropologie. A few weeks ago posts leaked off of Get Off My Internets about Anthroholic (see here, here, and here. Also, don’t pretend you don’t secretly read GOMI, too.).    Suze also writes a great piece [...]

In the last few weeks, the ethics of reselling gifted items has come up often. I’ve talked to bloggers who need to cull their wardrobe and feel conflicted or unethical about their desire to resell lightly worn review items . I’ve seen other bloggers list items in their blog-connected shop that I know for certain [...]

Image by Alles-Schlumpf The blogosphere isn’t that different than your daily “real” life: you wake up and get started working for the day. You interact with people–colleagues, friends, your family.  You experience a range of emotions– joy, exhaustion, anger, annoyance, excitement.   This is all to say, that since “real” life and the blogosphere have [...]