Comments on: PayPerPost: a Web 2.0 witch-hunt

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Sun, 25 Feb 2007 20:21:43 +0000

[...] Mathew Ingram’s PayPerPost witch hunt. [...]

By: Eric Rice

Eric Rice — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 02:11:56 +0000

Go tell this story to a broke-ass myspacer.

I want to hear what poor people have to say.

I don’t want to hear what the crazy uncles have to say. I love the crazy uncles. They need to go out for a pipe and let the kids have a breather.

And I’m thinking that the conversation might be different.

Cuz we are certainly scared of our crazy uncles. They give us wedgies and noogies and make us feel embarassed.

By: Robert: Disclose that bag of pretzels too » mathewingram.com/work

Robert: Disclose that bag of pretzels too » mathewingram.com/work — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 00:02:40 +0000

[...] Duncan Riley says that Scoble “has balls” for doing the speech, but also that he has become “a paid shill” for the company, and that he has every right to “whore his presence.” I think we’re back to where we were just the other day when the latest PayPerPost brouhaha erupted (which I wrote about here). Everyone is being held up against an impossible standard, just because PayPerPost is seen as the blogosphere’s version of a “sidewalk hooker,” — as Scoble’s friend and co-author Shel Israel says in his disapproving comment. [...]

By: Leigh

Leigh — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 16:48:38 +0000

Have you seen the Paul Kedrosky note on the payperpost “model” and climate change?

http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2007/02/02/taking_the_payp.html

I hope Jeff and Jason will take heart at the irony of the naming of your post. The witch-hunt in fact was created and financially backed by one of the biggest lobby groups in medieval times, the Catholic Church.

Manufacturing consent is a dangerous business. Today it’s about product X but tomorrow it could be about things that dramatically impact our lives. Disclosure is one thing, but in our digitally connected search world, it isn’t the individual posts with their disclosure claim on them that is the issue. It’s the fact that because these blog posts link to whatever the story is, current search engine technology will put that piece of media at the top of the results page.

While I get what you are saying Mathew about the tone of their concern, in the world where I consistently hear that â€œbusiness is just businessâ€ I will take moralistic to immoral any day of the week.

By: Shane Coffey

Shane Coffey — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 05:01:28 +0000

Here is my view, outside of the blogosphere no one knows Jason Calacanis. Pretty much the entire internet could give a rats ass about him and his opinions. He built weblogs inc with 10 ads on each one his blog. Seems a little hypocritcal to critisize people for making money and you have been a google whore for the better part of two years or more. Let me just say Jason that WordPress, Blogger, and Adsense have done more for the blogosphere then you could ever hope to do. So what you had a couple of blogs, got lucky, made some millions. So what gives you the right to tell my mom or my dogs mom that they don’t have a right to make money. I have to say I remember the same thing being said about adsense when it was first introduced. Now adsense is everywhere, the truth is that someone besides an “A-lister” thought of something and beat you to it.

You’re biggest concern was disclosure, and now payperpost requires that their bloggers disclose that the post is paid for. Please stop trying to be the morality police on the internet, its annoying and your arrogance is astounding.

If I misspelled any words, oh freakin well, move on with your life.