ReviewMe, PayPerPost, and Microsoft
There’s been alot of noise about bloggers selling out recently. The increasing popularity of ReviewMe and PayPerPost, along with Microsoft offering free Vista-powered laptops to prominent bloggers has got the “blogosphere” in an uproar about what the “blogosphere” is supposed to be.
The truth is, anyone who didn’t see this coming has had their head in the sand for a very long time.
Blogs “sold out” the first time somebody put Adsense code on their crappy poetry blog. A more telling milestone of when blogs sold out was when Google bought blogger.com four years ago.
So to all those people who are crying about the good ol’ days when blogs were free of advertising: you can go and read somebody’s crappy poetry blog if you want. I’d much rather subject myself to some advertising and read blogs where the author has motivation to captivate their readers.
But that’s just me.
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