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The great blog payola debate continues

Started by mathewi · 4 months ago

Back when PayPerPost first came along, it got a huge amount of negative publicity from the blogosphere, with some bloggers calling the company outright evil for paying people to write about corporate clients (and not requiring them to disclose that fact on their blogs). At the time, I wond ... Continue reading »

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  • michael arrington

    2 years ago

    Mathew - I didn't mean to come across as arrogant. When writing something negative about a sponsor it's hard to pick the right words and I may not have done a good job in this case. I agree with most of what you write, but I don't see the issue with TLA's main product at all. Maybe that's a discussion for another time...
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  • Mathew Ingram

    2 years ago

    Thanks for the comment, Mike. I guess things sometimes come out sounding a bit different when you write them, because of the clout that TechCrunch has.

    As for Text Link Ads, I just have a personal thing about them -- I hate the way that they try to mimic hyperlinks and fool people into clicking them.

    And I share your feelings about the whole payola thing -- I'm just not sure that there's a whole lot we can do about it, other than point it out when we see it and hope people eventually learn how to spot it.
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