Is it OK to fake dates on blog entries?

Posted on Friday 15 October 2010
Categories: Webometrics
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I guess the first question is, why would someone want to fake the date on their blog entry? Well, perhaps to show that they have been active and that they haven’t missed a single months or week in X number of years. However, the important question from a webometric point of view, is whether it is ethical to fake the dates? Faking the dates may mess up some poor researcher’s work, as the date may be of some significance in some studies. Anyway, as you can see I’m just rambling to get a post done so that I can fake the date and see what happens. My guess is; nothing. :-)