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Every Day Is A PayPerPost Day
February 1, 2007 |
What day could be a better day in the blogosphere than a day where PayPerPost gets more negative news than Microsoft. Today’s target is the horrible ‘Rock Startup’ web documentary/soap around the most despicable startup in the Web 2.0 world.
ValleyWag is on it, after Jeff Jarvis’ “Pray Per Post” item this morning about running into the PPP CEO after a talk he gave where he heavily criticized the company and after seeing that PPP is trying to sell its Rock Startup concept to TV stations.
One can really only wonder what these guys were thinking. But then I think, they weren’t thinking about the blogosphere. Indeed, they don’t give s&^t about the blogosphere. That’s what we commentators keep forgetting. Their users (Posties as they like to be called) are usually people with a low technical knowledge who don’t read TechMeme. Their advertisers, too, are not interested in the blogosphere, as they tend to be small companies (with a few exceptions) who need some cheap SEO on the side.
Jason Calacanis thinks PayPerPost is a train wreck coming off the rails. I can only hope so.
Update: If you would like to read the thoughtful opinion of somebody whose opinion is not as clouded by hatred for PPP, have a look at this post on Webomatica. I think we have a smiliar view, though I don’t see PPP as a benevolent agent:
I’m thinking PayPerPost possibly has an angle on a large demographic - folks to whom the words “get paid to blog about the things you love” sound like an awesome celebration of American capitalism and living the American dream. I get the feeling Home Shopping Network, Extreme Home Makeover, and Who Wants To Be A Millionaire appeal to that demographic, as well. I mean, there are folks that think commercials are just another form of entertainment.
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I have reservations about responding to this, but one point deserves a comment, and that is your characterization here:
Their users (Posties as they like to be called) are usually people with a low technical knowledge who don’t read TechMeme.
No low technical knowledge here. I’ll betcha I could go toe to toe with you and stand on even level. I quit reading Techmeme because it’s usually just blogosphere blathering piled on, but I subscribe to and read the Megite Web 2.0 workgroup every day as well as 328 other blogs, many of which are on your blogroll as well.
Don’t assume we’re all idiots. PPP has allowed me to help fellow bloggers in need of help with real money at the time they most needed it, it’s allowed me to make charitable contributions over and above what I’ve budgeted out of normal income, and it’s enabling me to purchase a camera lens I wouldn’t otherwise be able to afford anytime soon.
My posts are fully disclosed within the body of the post — every one — and I only choose to write for those advertisers who appear to be above-board and offer some real benefit to the people who read my blog.
The fact that you and a few other bullies in the blogosphere begrudge me that doesn’t faze me one bit. You keep blustering, I’ll keep writing, and we’ll all get a few more visitors and a few more readers.
Regards,
Karoli
Karoli,
I understand where you are coming from, but I also think you are the exception to the rule. Just have a look at the PPP forum and think about how many others posties are taking those cheap, spammy ops.
I don’t begrudge you making money off your blog. As I have said many times, though, I think there are other ways that allow you to keep your credibility.
Just to clarify the TechMeme comment - it was meant more as a reference to the fact that most posties don’t care and maybe don’t know about what the rest of the blogosphere thinks (most - though Karoli is obviously an exception).
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I’m one of those disclosers, as well.
When PayPerPost first came out, I threw up a few posts to see if the system would work. When I saw it did, I wandered around the blogosphere to see what was going on.
People were complaining about disclosure (and the lack of it), so I simply started disclosing long before PayPerPost got around to being whipped for not requiring it.
Sometimes the blogosphere has a good point. The rest of the time, it’s usually hot air.
As for that ‘low technical knowledge’ comment, nice try, but you’re off by miles.
I’m on a well-secured Win2000 box, shelled (huzzah, ssh!) into two different FreeBSD boxes to do some work. One is getting PHP5, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, SuPHP, and either Abyss or Apache 1.3.37, so I can test-run Habari locally.
The other is me upgrading some of the apps I use on my webhost (since I have… you guessed it, root access), and deploying them for server-wide usage.
I run WordPress from SVN (and prior to that, from CVS, and that was since 0.72’s release which still had a lot of b2/Cafelog’s default files in it).
I have enough Unix utilities on my Windows box to be comfortable in not switching local operating systems, so that I can use the majority of the software out there.
As per the TechMeme comment:
It usually ends up as a lot of ‘me me me me‘ saying that I could live without.
I generally avoid things with the word ‘meme’ in it.
By the way… You’ve got a bit of Flat Screen TV spam on one of your posts.
Akismet’s slipping a little.
Oh, next time… More body to the rant, please. Karoli’s reply has more natural body to it than your post. Thanks.
— Justin