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Re: Google knows what bloggers want

sidsavara — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:42:10 -0000

Although at $100, if you're making a trip out across country, getting a hotel, etc it's not a bad price at all. Its not free but it won't break you

Maybe they figured free would just be overrun with random people who were in the area, who aren't even bloggers. At $100 you have to at least sort of want to see what it's about before going inside =)

Re: Google knows what bloggers want

mathewi — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:09:14 -0000

As far as I know, it's not normal for there to be "tents" that companies sponsor, where journalists have to pay for access. It kind of surprises me that Google would do that, actually -- I would have expected them to provide it for free. But perhaps they felt that providing it for free would cause a perception of bias.

Re: Google knows what bloggers want

sidsavara — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:58:40 -0000

Very cool! I don't know much about "media tents", is it normal to charge for it, or do conventions etc typically just give access to journalists/bloggers for free?

Or is the point that "normal" (independent? non-affiliated?) bloggers can't get into normal press areas and thus this is their area to hang out? Wasn't clear to me from the WSJ article, as it mentions at the Republican convention, 200 bloggers do have press passes.