slashdot.com and PayPerPost
March 28th 2007 09:23
My son – the geek – told me about the site, slashdot.com, a couple of days ago. I hadn’t heard of it, and he offhandedly claimed I probably wouldn’t enjoy it as much as he does because it’s more technical. A geek site, in other words.
In fact, it’s not a geek site at all, and caters to all sorts of tastes.
The first piece that caught my attention related to bloggers not being journalists, and therefore not worthy of respect. The second related to the PayPerPost controversy. It seems that a law firm advertising through PayPerPost has been asking bloggers to write posts stating that a certain birth control patch is killing and injuring young women.
I haven’t seen anything of this, and I’ve been working with PayPerPost for some time. But then they’ve recently changed their approach to bloggers and most of the work is going to people with Google rankings of higher than 1 (I think mine is still well and truly nought). Consequently I don’t even get a look in on a lot of their ‘opportunities’ any more. So maybe the opportunity to tell the word that a birth control patch is killing young women has passed me by.
A great number of people writing into slashdot.com have jumped on the bandwagon and said that bloggers who write paid posts are unethical. Well, they’ve obviously missed that fact that all PayPerPost paid posts (still with me?) have to have a disclosure link attached to them now, and have done so for a while. In fact, these ethics hunters’ should be reminded that it’s other internet companies that pay people to post who don’t require disclosures, not PayPerPost.
I don’t defend PPP, even though they’ve paid me quite a bit. I’m a bit niggled with their change of attitude towards the small-scale blogger, but that’s the way companies go when they make more money. But I am amused by the irateness that many of these writers bring with their opinions. Haven’t writers been reviewing books for well over a hundred and fifty years, and most of them get paid. Is that different to blog posts that advertise something? Not in very much of a degree, I think.
Epinions.com pays people for their opinions.
Okay, you can say these ones do it out in the open. But you’d have to be rather dull of mind to think that I’d write posts about places like Boise, or Florida, or on the value of hoarding silver, or a host of other things I’ve written on and been paid for, and pretend that somehow I was trying to deceive people into thinking I wasn’t advertising.
Are all these righteous people so unimaginative?
In fact, it’s not a geek site at all, and caters to all sorts of tastes.
The first piece that caught my attention related to bloggers not being journalists, and therefore not worthy of respect. The second related to the PayPerPost controversy. It seems that a law firm advertising through PayPerPost has been asking bloggers to write posts stating that a certain birth control patch is killing and injuring young women.
I haven’t seen anything of this, and I’ve been working with PayPerPost for some time. But then they’ve recently changed their approach to bloggers and most of the work is going to people with Google rankings of higher than 1 (I think mine is still well and truly nought). Consequently I don’t even get a look in on a lot of their ‘opportunities’ any more. So maybe the opportunity to tell the word that a birth control patch is killing young women has passed me by.
A great number of people writing into slashdot.com have jumped on the bandwagon and said that bloggers who write paid posts are unethical. Well, they’ve obviously missed that fact that all PayPerPost paid posts (still with me?) have to have a disclosure link attached to them now, and have done so for a while. In fact, these ethics hunters’ should be reminded that it’s other internet companies that pay people to post who don’t require disclosures, not PayPerPost.
I don’t defend PPP, even though they’ve paid me quite a bit. I’m a bit niggled with their change of attitude towards the small-scale blogger, but that’s the way companies go when they make more money. But I am amused by the irateness that many of these writers bring with their opinions. Haven’t writers been reviewing books for well over a hundred and fifty years, and most of them get paid. Is that different to blog posts that advertise something? Not in very much of a degree, I think.
Epinions.com pays people for their opinions.
Okay, you can say these ones do it out in the open. But you’d have to be rather dull of mind to think that I’d write posts about places like Boise, or Florida, or on the value of hoarding silver, or a host of other things I’ve written on and been paid for, and pretend that somehow I was trying to deceive people into thinking I wasn’t advertising.
Are all these righteous people so unimaginative?
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