Friday

The PayPerPost Agenda

Since it's creation PayPerPost.com has received attention from bloggers everywhere and not always in the positive manner. The fear to many bloggers is the idea that it commercializes the purest form of news, which is opinion fed blogging. No longer is it safe to trust a sites review of a product, they may be paid to play to make money blogging.

Dan is one such blogger that has adapted to what PayPerPost has to offer. In a recent article on his blog he discusses the pros/cons to such an infrastructure and it's acceptance amongst the net. Dan suggests that this advertising method is ahead of it's time and other major sites should adapt to it's style.

I see domain-specific social networking sites like MySpace and YouTube trying to play an advertising game that doesn't fit their core competency
Going on to explain what can cause a backlash amongst the community, users will slowly start moving toward services such as friendster.com and multiply.com.

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