#45: Code of Conduct for Blogger?

The Guardian came out with an article, about how two bloggers - "Tim O'Reilly, inventor of the phrase Web 2.0 to describe the next generation of interactive communications, and Jimmy Wales, founder of the communal encyclopaedia Wikipedia" - tried to introduce a code of conduct in the blogosphere.

I am against this mainly because blogs were created as a revolt against mainstream media (which is already trying to make it into the blogosphere). Blogs is an alternative forum, where participants can be sure they will not be persecuted for what they write, therefore anonymity, against which the new code is speaking, is a very important feature of blogs.