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 "Blog Payola" Draws Adverse Reaction 
By: Mathew Ingram 2007-01-16 Looks like round three (or is it round four?) of the blog payola debate is upon us, something I expected we would see more of in 2007. Over at The Blog Herald, my friend Tony I Never Sleep Hung has the 411 on a new PayPerPost-style blog review service called SponsoredReviews, which is reportedly about to launch in beta. Tony has the details, and Mike Arrington at TechCrunch brings the outrage, in a post that says the blog payola virus is spreading. In a response in the comments, someone says that services like PayPerPost fill a need, and Mike responds that drug dealers fill a need too. The bottom line, he says, is that such services mean misled readers, search engine pollution and credibility questions around the entire blogosphere. All for a few dollars a post. SponsoredReviews, like PayPerPost, appears to require disclosure - although its not clear yet whether that will be a general, site-wide disclosure like the one PPP allows, or whether compensation will have to be disclosed on each and every sponsored post, which is the way I think it should be done. SponsoredReviews is also trying to carve out a variation on the model by allowing bloggers to set their own rates, with a bidding system determining the eventual payola level. And the service says that it will have a rating system, although its not clear what that will consist of. Ive got a great idea: How about instead of requiring disclosure, SponsoredReviews requires bloggers to post the details of the entire monetary transaction that led to the post in a small box next to the post " complete with all the various bids and the final price that was paid for the review. Transparency is good. View All Articles by Mathew Ingram About the Author: Mathew Ingram is a technology writer and blogger for the Globe and Mail, a national newspaper based in Toronto, and also writes about the Web and media at www.mathewingram.com/work and www.mathewingram.com/media. |
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