DISQUS

webomatica · 2 years ago

Yeah now that I think about it, the disclosure thing is getting kind of crazy - I'm disclosing things before I even do them, now :)

Totally off topic, but what is the plug in you're using for your recent comments? I like how it has the URL of the commenter, and I'd like to add it to my WordPress blog... thanks.

Dominic Jones · 2 years ago

You'd think Robert Scoble was a journalist or a priest or something the way people have reacted to this.

I don't think during his blogging career that he's ever been either of those things. He's a PR guy who blogs. He blogs about companies that pay him money (and many that don't) -- a lot more money than those poor bloggers who toil for PayPerPost.

If he's going to give of his time, he wants to be compensated. Who doesn't, unless it's for a good cause?

Mathew · 2 years ago

I agree, Dominic. People seem to be expecting things of Scoble that they never did when he was a flack for Microsoft -- I'm not sure why.

And Jason, the recent comments plugin is a sidebar widget that came as part of the Wordpress widget plugin.

Seth Finkelstein · 2 years ago

The big deal is as follows: There's been a huge amount of ranting from the A-list that PayPerPost is EVIL EVIL EVIL, and people taking money from them are bad, bad, bad bloggers who pollute our precious bloggily fluids.

Then one of the BigHeads announces he's getting paid - with special treatment! - to speak for them.

IOKIYAA! = "It's OK If You're An A-lister".

Yeah, yeah, you can argue "that's different", because, you see, he's getting big money for *speaking*, and that's just what A-listers do, but if you, little Z-lister, get small money for posting, well, then it's not about the "conversation" anymore (strangely, all those speakers fees aren't taken to corrupt the "conversation" at all, it's only capitalism).

So what you're neglecting in the above post in the demonization of PayPerPost, and the class-warfare aspects thereof.

[note: I'm not defending PPP _per se_ - but I don't see them as so much worse than the strategies used by the A-list for their own monetization]

Eric Rice · 2 years ago

Class warfare, totally. You tell people broke that they can be paid to blog, "zomg sign me up!"... and then when you go on about transparency and disclosure, they laugh at you and repeat, "sign me up!"

We don't like this. It's against The Rules.

Tony · 2 years ago

Amen, seth ... Amen. ;)

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Robert Scoble · 2 years ago

I was never paid to speak on PayPerPost's behalf. I'm giving a speech at a conference planned and sponsored by PayPerPost, though, and I'm not being paid by them to do so as per PodTech's policy on speaker compensation.