Oh the irony

3 Jul 2006

TechCrunch rips PayPerPost, a company that pays bloggers to write blog posts for advertisers. That’s ironic, since they apparently have no problem with selling links. Selling a blog post is a step beyond that, but not a large one.

Hashim
July 3, 2006 12:49 PM

“Selling a blog post is a step beyond that, but not a large one.”

The links are clearly ads. A blog post is deceptive because people don’t expect it to be an ad. That is a large difference.

rolandog
July 12, 2006 12:55 AM

I agree with Hashim. The last thing we need on these tubes… errr I mean on the internet,… is more spamvertisements.

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