![]() ![]() The products I write about and the pages I link to are like gold-laden earth just begging to be mined. Come to think of it, I’m not getting any richer writing this blog. Oh my, I’m being swayed! This is starting to sound like a people’s blogging revolution. Now, small blogs can automatically tap into that revenue flow. We’re just here to pay you for what you’re already doing! Elliott goes on to make the powerful suggestion that this service is merely opening up to average bloggers a mutual back-scratching arrangement that magazines and other media have enjoyed for decades:īig blogs–like big magazines–probably sit closely with the subjects they write on in a behind the scenes agreement. This sounds like great marketing copy for PayPerPost! Come on, you were going to write it anyway. If you use PayPerPost to supplement your blogging income by writing stories for it that you would have written anyway, or that are true to your actual opinions, disclosure is not needed, because you are not blogging differently because of the money. My gut thumbs-down reaction made me feel right at home on Robert’s and Marshall Kirkpatrick’s pages, but not everybody agrees that PayPerPost is evil.Įlliott Back’s take on the matter is that as long as the articles are no different from what the author would have written anyway, there is no ethical dilemma: This would be a very short post – even a mere link – if there wasn’t some good debate on the table. In other words, it’s a mechanism for totally freaking selling out. The author write an article on the subject and if PayPerPost approves it, she publishes it and gets paid. These are topics that were hand chosen by paying advertisers. The gist is that a blog author signs up with the service and then browses for “topics” of interest. I hadn’t heard of PayPerPost before reading Robert Scoble’s stance on it earlier today. ![]()
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