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"The new product is a widget that bloggers can add to their blogs that announces their willingness to sell blog posts." What's next, you walk into a financial

• gibsonf1 19y ago
  This is really a bad idea - it corrupts what is so attractive about blogs - that they represent the genuine opinions of the bloggers. If there is a disclaimer in the blog about the sponsorship, however, no problem.
  • mojuba 19y ago
    Old media is corrupt the same way, isn't it? Remember PG's submarine metaphor?
  • byrneseyeview 19y ago
    Maybe it's time to stop treating 'blogs' as a monolith, since they're as definite a medium as, say, "Ink-like substances on tree-like materials." Some blogs will become less reliable if they can get paid to advertise -- just as some blogs got less reliable when people realized they could distort facts to support their political favorites. If you want a blogger you can trust, you're already screwed. Blogging makes you exactly as anonymous as you want to be, so it's almost certain that what people refuse to disclose is whatever will hurt them most.