Quality and “getting noticed” are going to be the name of the game. Have something good (which won’t be paid posts) and then find a way to get it in front of people so you can develop an audience.

I don’t think anything will change… look at all the spammy blogs that are out there posting nothing original at all right now… what will a few million more crappy blogs matter?

I think there’s enough bandwidth to allow both paid and uncompensated blogs. As long as we know which is which, we can surf intelligently. One thought I have about being paid to blog; your content had better be accurate, complete and informed. There’s too much free, quality content out there I can access. Your metrics won’t be worth a buck if you don’t deliver something different and interesting.

If all you do is AdSense, I don’t even consider that payment. It’s passive and obvious.

My sister in law came over a couple of months ago in her new Prius. We have one now, too. Oh, and I bought some Moo cards for my drummer son because I saw some really cool ones on Flickr because of their free giveaway awhile back. And I actually watch commercial TV.

Before I bought my last laptop I read through lots of blogs to see which ones seemed to be ones bloggers liked best.

It wouldn’t matter to me whether any of the recommendations I used were paid or not as long as I trusted the person who wrote them to be honest about the product, which I did in these cases.

No one steered me wrong — I got exactly what I expected. I don’t view that as a bad thing.

Part of what has me defending PPP is this misconception that the ones paid to post are spam-mongers. At three non-consecutive posts per day (I usually do one about every three days), this is not a spamblog factory, crusading to further pollute the blogosphere with meaningless tripe.

DnW

Drums… Most disclose eh? Those are blogs I’ll never, ever read. Do you keep going to your friends house if everytime you go over they keep putting on the sales pitch for tupperware or candles? I sure as heck don’t.

I’m working on a disclosure policy for my blog because this doesn’t feel like a one-size-fits-all problem. I’d appreciate your thoughts.

I’m one step ahead of you, as are most of the folks writing for PPP.

DnW

Blog honor pledge seems like a decent thing to do

it’s quite an impassioned issue, though. A post I wrote on it several weeks back is still generating debate from PayPerPosters defending the model.

If the pledge is about authenticity and transparency then they should remove the “how long is a piece of string” quality bit and keep the other two. After all quality is subjective and not really necessary. There are plenty of successful and authentic blogs out there that are low quality in terms of badly grammar and aweful spelling.