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Re: Get a real job
Ouch. Of all the negative posts about this, yours stung the hardest. I wish I understood why this concept has been received so badly. I can see it if a blog is nothing but sponsored posts, amounting to one big fat infomercial, but what if it wasn't? What if the blogger truly believed in what they were blogging about? What if the blogger would blog on it whether or not they were paid? There are a lot of SAHM moms who can't go out and get a "real job". There are bloggers like me who really like trying new things and talking about them. If you go back to my archives in the review sections you'll discover lots of reviews done just because I liked sharing stuff I thought was cool with folks reading or happening across my blog. Now if I get to pick what I write about and how I write about it and whether I write about it at all, AND what I write about is something I probably would've written about anyway, why am I suddenly scum for getting 5 or 10 bucks to write it? I write about stuff I believe in, whether it's health insurance boondoggles, music, movies, web tools or the scummy Scientologists. Each of those topics is chosen by me. The same is true of the PPP posts. The funniest part of this whole controversy is that I might be more neutral about the issue if I weren't constantly feeling slammed for trying something new, different and a little innovative. But reading posts that suggest I should get a "real job" (LOL, I have two) push me into defensive writing mode, so PPP has gotten more free words from me than just about anyone else I've written about. Hope your travel home is safe. There are responses to this message:
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