Comments on: Doc Searls on PayPerPost http://www.lastpodcast.net/2006/10/16/doc-searls-on-payperpost/ Opinionated Web 2.0 News and Commentary Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:58:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jarretthousenorth.com » Blog Archive » Around the ’sphere: Thank U http://www.lastpodcast.net/2006/10/16/doc-searls-on-payperpost/comment-page-1/#comment-49921 Jarretthousenorth.com » Blog Archive » Around the ’sphere: Thank U Sat, 03 May 2008 18:01:14 +0000 http://www.lastpodcast.net/2006/10/16/doc-searls-on-payperpost/#comment-49921 [...] services that turn bloggers into paid product shills are wrong, wrong, wrong. It’s too bad that someone actually has to explain [...] [...] services that turn bloggers into paid product shills are wrong, wrong, wrong. It’s too bad that someone actually has to explain [...]

]]> By: Jarrett House North » Blog Archive » Around the ’sphere: Thank U http://www.lastpodcast.net/2006/10/16/doc-searls-on-payperpost/comment-page-1/#comment-49774 Jarrett House North » Blog Archive » Around the ’sphere: Thank U Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:49:32 +0000 http://www.lastpodcast.net/2006/10/16/doc-searls-on-payperpost/#comment-49774 [...] services that turn bloggers into paid product shills are wrong, wrong, wrong. It’s too bad that someone actually has to explain [...] [...] services that turn bloggers into paid product shills are wrong, wrong, wrong. It’s too bad that someone actually has to explain [...]

]]> By: PabloHoney http://www.lastpodcast.net/2006/10/16/doc-searls-on-payperpost/comment-page-1/#comment-25600 PabloHoney Thu, 25 Jan 2007 17:10:39 +0000 http://www.lastpodcast.net/2006/10/16/doc-searls-on-payperpost/#comment-25600 Just saw this post from a search about paid posting. Thanks for the link to PayPerPost. I am now making $100 a day posting shit in a couple of hours. Just saw this post from a search about paid posting. Thanks for the link to PayPerPost. I am now making $100 a day posting shit in a couple of hours.

]]> By: Erich D. http://www.lastpodcast.net/2006/10/16/doc-searls-on-payperpost/comment-page-1/#comment-6773 Erich D. Tue, 17 Oct 2006 23:55:52 +0000 http://www.lastpodcast.net/2006/10/16/doc-searls-on-payperpost/#comment-6773 Who the fuck is Doc Searls? Why does his opinion matter? You realize the only reason I'm reading your blog now is because you turned up in my search for PayPerPost, right? Frederic - do you have a blog? If you understand SEO, then you know this particular blog is doing just that for PayErPost, Scoble, thei Doc searls loon, and many others.... I actually have dcome to bleieve tint he open market. Readers cna sift and choose what they want to bleieve, and more importantly, they can investigate and learn for themselves. What's immoral is drawing conclusions without understanding the larger market picture. All blogs are inherently commercial. If we didn't have somehting to sell, we wouldn't publish it publicly. Who the fuck is Doc Searls?

Why does his opinion matter?

You realize the only reason I’m reading your blog now is because you turned up in my search for PayPerPost, right?

Frederic – do you have a blog? If you understand SEO, then you know this particular blog is doing just that for PayErPost, Scoble, thei Doc searls loon, and many others….

I actually have dcome to bleieve tint he open market.

Readers cna sift and choose what they want to bleieve, and more importantly, they can investigate and learn for themselves.

What’s immoral is drawing conclusions without understanding the larger market picture.

All blogs are inherently commercial. If we didn’t have somehting to sell, we wouldn’t publish it publicly.

]]> By: Frederic http://www.lastpodcast.net/2006/10/16/doc-searls-on-payperpost/comment-page-1/#comment-6750 Frederic Tue, 17 Oct 2006 15:39:24 +0000 http://www.lastpodcast.net/2006/10/16/doc-searls-on-payperpost/#comment-6750 In the end though, the readers control if any many gets made from the adsense ad, while you are the one who makes the decision to hawk a certain product. There is nothing immoral about that - what is immoral, though, is not disclosing your affiliation and misleading your readers. You actually disclose that your post are spnsored, but many PPPsters do not. In the end, though, you are just doing SEO for companies - for very little money - while poisoning the blogosphere with bogus posts. You say the purpose of your blog is not commerical - if that is the case, just delete the PPP stuff and have a clean conscience. In the end though, the readers control if any many gets made from the adsense ad, while you are the one who makes the decision to hawk a certain product. There is nothing immoral about that – what is immoral, though, is not disclosing your affiliation and misleading your readers. You actually disclose that your post are spnsored, but many PPPsters do not.
In the end, though, you are just doing SEO for companies – for very little money – while poisoning the blogosphere with bogus posts.
You say the purpose of your blog is not commerical – if that is the case, just delete the PPP stuff and have a clean conscience.

]]> By: DrumsNWhistles http://www.lastpodcast.net/2006/10/16/doc-searls-on-payperpost/comment-page-1/#comment-6718 DrumsNWhistles Tue, 17 Oct 2006 02:17:15 +0000 http://www.lastpodcast.net/2006/10/16/doc-searls-on-payperpost/#comment-6718 Maybe you're not actively shilling, but at least I have control over what commercial ads will be on my blog, as opposed to ending up with Audi TT ads on there because it was in my post. What do you do if you blog about something you hate and it generates an ad? Isn't that somewhat immoral too? I sure wouldn't hand over control of what was being hawked on my site to anyone but me. Maybe you’re not actively shilling, but at least I have control over what commercial ads will be on my blog, as opposed to ending up with Audi TT ads on there because it was in my post. What do you do if you blog about something you hate and it generates an ad? Isn’t that somewhat immoral too?

I sure wouldn’t hand over control of what was being hawked on my site to anyone but me.

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