Well, as for much as my colleague Dave Binkowski rants, he does occasionally have some decent points (just kidding, Dave). This latest post for example on what he calls the censorship of pay-per-post. Apparently, PayPerPost “will not let it’s employees, or ‘Posties’ as they’re called, write about anything they don’t purchase.” Dave learned this from another colleagues who was told by a blogger that he/she (not sure which) had a post removed by the PPP people for “violating the terms of service.” Dave goes on to say…
In the era of transparency, authenticity and credibility, PayPerPost is clearly not interested in participating in the aforementioned values but instead asking bloggers to destroy their credibility through nondisclosure and controlling their content.
I think it can be argued that PPP has never been interested in values, but that’s a post in and of itself.
One of the deeper issues here is that because the blogosphere is so saturated with product reviews, everyone is starting to get nastily territorial. The lines are drawn on the battlefield and bloggers are choosing sides between PPP and PR. I just wonder how soon it will be until the war actually starts. Hey, maybe we can call it World Wide Web War 2.0!
Important side note: I want to mention here that we have never and will never pay a blogger in exchange for a review. If a blogger accepts something from us, he or she is under no obligation to even write about the product. I just have to throw that out there :-)
