No doubt, much of the conversation this morning will be taken up with Blog Swap this and Blog Swap that, and to the extent that some of us have nothing better to do than to smoke our own dope, I guess it might be a conversation worth following. We’ll see.
My first guest post for the swap is for David Kippen. David blogs for TMP. This in itself presented a number of challenges as I sat down to do my thing. Not least of all, David’s is a corporate blog with an obvious bias toward TMP’s money-making interests – and color scheme I might add. And, why not? It is what it is.
Bearing this in mind I had to be sensitive to the nature of the beast. After all, I am a guest and I certainly do not want to be so rude as to find I never get another insertion order from an old friend and corporate ally. But, in light of Jim Durbin’s recent post I Am Not A Paid Shill where he chimes in on a discussion initiated by Joel Cheesman – and my own independence as a citizen-blogger - I had to think twice about what to write. I mean, I’m not an unpaid shill, am I?
I suspect there may a delay in getting my post up on TMP’s site and David Kippen’s otherwise unnamed blog, oddly unbranded I thought. The wheels in Legal grind slowly. And I know it has to go through proofing. So while you’re all waiting, take a look at what Darren Rowse has to say in his post: PayPerPost – Paying Bloggers to Post – First Impressions. Oh, one last thing – I heard on FOX News last week that it now costs 20% more to produce one penny than a penny is actually worth. That’s my two cents worth on shilling.
Thanks for the post, Amitai. Hope we didn’t tie you up too long in legal.