BloggingForDollars

2008 : Is it becoming NetoCracy? Or MainstreamMedia?

• http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/19/more-bloggers-raising-money-here-come-the-politics-and-here-comes-my-rant/

** Scoble respost : http://scobleizer.com/2008/03/20/mike-arringtons-dream-team-has-wrong-goal/

** Compare: http://www.unionsquareventures.com/2008/03/disqus.html

MarcCantor wants to commercialize blogging : http://marc.blogs.it/archives/2004/10/transparency_an.html

points

• wants bloggers "engaged" with the sponser, actually a mouthpiece / representative of a company or brand. This is basically the same as RageBoy's GonzoMarketting. It's bloggers as employees of / substitutes for the PR department. No surprise, that's where the ClueTrain people came from.

• EndemicAdvertising - advertising sympathetic to community of readers

More conventional micropublishing empire : http://corporate.weblogsinc.com/entry/7831595493861351/

I once suggested it as an experiment on TribeNet : http://brazil.tribe.net/thread/cc4f415a-eee2-4eda-a6fd-9190082c480c?tribeid=53971c4b-f6e8-4fce-b7d5-6f6878557eb3&r=10275

• http://www.bloggercon.org/2004/10/19#a1692

• Criticism : (essentially http://www.corante.com/getreal/archives/whatswrongwith_bloggercon.php (essentially a debate between NetoCracy/Imploitation and NetoCracy/Exploitation)

• http://ojr.org/ojr/glaser/1100038964.php

• DocSearles lists the criticisms : http://garage.docsearls.com/node/view/488

Write your book in blogs :

• RedCouch

• http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/starterkit/faqs/betafaq.html

PatronageBlogging?

Auction a blog : http://www.ensight.org/archives/2004/12/03/end-of-auction-post/

See also :

• GettingPaidForContent

• OnMicrosoft/OnTheClueTrain

• BlogNetworks

Compare :

• PatronagePop