Bucks for Blogs
I finally discovered the right blog design, that I felt suited this blog. After reading through several web pages on trying to figure out html, css and other fun code, I gave up and just went to find a pre-made template.
I found something quite amusing. There was a bit of advertising within the blog template (easy to edit out), plus a Google search bar. The advertising was to "make money online" through some means (I didn't investigate very much), but it reminded me of an article I read this morning (linked through Keri Smiths Wish Jar Journal).
The article was talking about bloggers who are sponsored to make certain 'advertising' blogs.
Check out the article here.
As a blogger myself (for the past almost 2 years) I'm not sure how to take this. Perhaps the bright hope that was the blog has become tarnished. The free voice. where everyone can be a journalist. the bloggers who can expose stories, bring down politicians, be an alternative voice in a media saturated society...
Perhaps like the magazine and newspaper got the advertorial, and t.v. got shows like today tonight, the blogosphere has now got these advertorial posts.
(Thanks to Auran for the template help)
I found something quite amusing. There was a bit of advertising within the blog template (easy to edit out), plus a Google search bar. The advertising was to "make money online" through some means (I didn't investigate very much), but it reminded me of an article I read this morning (linked through Keri Smiths Wish Jar Journal).
The article was talking about bloggers who are sponsored to make certain 'advertising' blogs.
"Thousands of bloggers are writing sponsored posts about subjects as diverse as diamonds, digital cameras and drug clinics. The bloggers are spurred by new marketing middlemen such as PayPerPost Inc. that connect advertisers with mom-and-pop Web masters."
"Their irate blogging counterparts say the cottage industry is polluting the blog world and misleading consumers by blurring the line between advertising and unbiased opinion."
Check out the article here.
As a blogger myself (for the past almost 2 years) I'm not sure how to take this. Perhaps the bright hope that was the blog has become tarnished. The free voice. where everyone can be a journalist. the bloggers who can expose stories, bring down politicians, be an alternative voice in a media saturated society...
Perhaps like the magazine and newspaper got the advertorial, and t.v. got shows like today tonight, the blogosphere has now got these advertorial posts.
(Thanks to Auran for the template help)
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