10/30/2006

PayPerPost - Another Irrelevant Thread Nobody Cares About

There’s quite a brouhaha underway over PayPerPost sending ripples of opinion across the Net. Jeneane sums it up with a nice post of sanity here. It even got wound up enough for Shelley to chime in. I miss Shelley. She’s been too quiet lately. She’s been focused on real life, ignoring this fantasyland of blogs and such. I’ve seen posts both sane and insane on the subject. Sadly, it’s a metablogging thing that nobody cares about at all. Me included.

Yes, I find the whole PayPerPost topic less than boring. When the fight gets really good down the road, it will work up to boring. Personally, I don’t give a rabbit’s fart and I find little value it pointing out to some people who should be smarter that they’re, well full of caca actually.

I only mention it because Shelley shared this disclaimer:

Disclosure: I make money writing books for O’Reilly. Well, I make some
money writing books for O’Reilly. I’d like to make more money writing
books for O’Reilly, as well as articles and books for other companies
and publications, but right now, it’s just O’Reilly. No one else gives
me a damn dime. Bummer.

I feel compelled to also disclose. This blog is sponsored. By me. I sponsor it out of my own pocket so that I can say anydamnthingIwant. I write books, speak, consult, and do other things. And I have a day job. I’m not a fool. I’m not giving up my day job. Been there. Done that. Got the debt therapy scars to prove it. So I freely disclose that I’m not a hired gun, nor do I play one on television. I say nice things about companies and people I really like. I say nasty things about the ones I dislike. Deal with it. I don’t get paid per post. I don’t use Google AdNonsense. I don’t have popups. I use RSS so I don’t have to read them on your blog, and you people who shove ads in RSS piss me off. Consider this an advertisement free zone. If you feel I’m advertising, it’s just me talking up something I really like. And if I get paid for it, you’ll know by the shit-eatin grin because I’ll tell you.

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  1. Constance Reader
    October 31st, 2006 | 1:48 pm

    I’m bored with it too, because the entire conversation is taking place on the theoretical level of the impact PayPerPost might have, if it were paying for posts on important topics or hot ticket/high priced items. But it’s not. I registered with PayPerPal just to browse the “opportunties” for paid posts and they consist of the narrow niche trivia, useless products or borderline scams (IMO, but they read too much like the kind of products and services I’m constantly getting email spam about).

    So it begs the question: do any of the bloggers talking their fingers raw about disclosure vs. nondisclosure — and since I own my site and my domain, I’ll disclose as fully as I want to, PayPerPost be damned — have actually browsed the sales leads it offers? If they did, I don’t think they’d care so much, either.

  2. Ken
    October 31st, 2006 | 4:42 pm

    I agree. Everybody’s knees are jerking but there is no definitive answer. And one size doesn’t fit all. Like you, I’ll do what I damn well want with my domain. I just didn’t see PayPerPost as being worth my effort to play with. But that’s me. That doesn’t mean it won’t be useful for a goodly number of people.

    I think bloggers creating and proscribing behaviors they feel others should adhere to is somewhat akin to masturbation. It gives them momentary gratification, but when they do it too much, they go blind.

  3. Shelley
    October 31st, 2006 | 7:24 pm

    It was actually a refreshing change from more serious debate, which is the upcoming election. Sometimes it become overwhelming and metablogging is like shooting targets at the fair: yes you’re using a gun, but you get a doll if you shoot straight.

    Quiet is going to be an on again off again thing for the next few months while I slay real dragons. But I never ever forget my friends.

  4. Constance Reader
    November 1st, 2006 | 7:12 am

    It’s a good point, Shelley, but it raises the possibility that the upcoming election is a major contributor to the frenzy around the PayPerPablum debate: the meta-debate about accountability and transparency. Fox News, the roll-over-and-play-dead White House press corps and MSM, corruption and cronyism…all of these issues center around transparency and disclosure. Come to think of it, the recent wave of problems with backdated stock options for corporate execs also falls under this heading.

    Hell, you might as well throw in a comment about all the hype about Zune that turned out to be utter bunk (wifi, my ass).

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