Comments on: forbes.com & payperpost - bloggers beware?

By: historymike

historymike — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 12:24:28 +0000

Nice rebuttal, Colleen, and glad to see that you have kept your sense of humor about being slagged by Forbes.

BTW - your excellent site loads fine in Firefox, but today in IE the left sidebar is oblterating the body text.

By: dpeach

dpeach — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:41:26 +0000

Journalists don’t understand personal blogging, nor blogging for profit. They are not allowed to take any kind of compensation from the people who they write about.

They think that blogging is journalism. While it can be, it is not always. Therefore, we should be allowed to give our opinions on whatever we want. Even if we are paid to do so. Personally, I think your opinion should not be influenced by that big $5 temptation that the advertiser is paying you, but we are not journalists who have to live under a certain code.

And, rarely are they neutral on a subject…as we can obviously see.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 22:48:52 +0000

Hey, if nothing else, atleast you got a backlink from Forbes.com.

By: Amy

Amy — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 01:20:01 +0000

I just want to know how you’re making 2K per month on advertising only. That’s all. LOL

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 22:04:27 +0000

WTG Colleen! I think I will post something in my blog on this matter and not take a direct hit at the person that wrote it, but for Forbes to allow it. BTW…..Can I borrow 20 bucks?……lol

By: Autumn

Autumn — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 18:17:47 +0000

I learned the hard way shortly after being crowned Ms Wheelchair America to always ask to see a an article before it goes to press. Reporters certainly have a way of manipulating this , fortunately you have some powerful blogs to fight back with.

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 17:34:47 +0000

You are definitely an A Lister. I would have thought that a top magazine like Forbes would have really done their research before bringing out an article like this. And to think that I subscibe to it.

I might have to send off a letter to the editor. I am worried that they might say “Note to ‘’serious’’ bloggers: Stop whining.”

By: Jenn

Jenn — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 16:59:33 +0000

PayPerPost has started to require bloggers to publicly disclose that they occasionally take money from sponsors. (That prompted 7% of its advertisers and 5% of its posties to jump ship right away.) But Murphy leaves policing mostly up to the advertisers.

I would like to see one blogger who actually got a post approved without a disclosure!

And way to go girl! I totally agree this guy really should have checked his facts. He might pull the wool over the general public, but he really looks bad in the eyes of a Postie!

By: Breezie

Breezie — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 16:11:19 +0000

Great reply indeed Colleen and he does need to get his facts straight before he reports anything by the looks of it.

By: eve

eve — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:16:01 +0000

this has been dugg!

http://digg.com/offbeat_news/Forbes_com_payperpost_bloggers_beware/blog