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Originally Posted by Mich
I'm not sure that the issue is plagiarism. Rather, I am guessing that people are concerned about the difference between editorial and ads. When you post a banner ad, it is clearly, indubitably, an ad. A blog post is less clear cut.
I don't think the blogs of Messrs. Cosgrove & Ferruggia are "people's blogs" in the sense of a blog being a personal, reflective, journal with ongoing original content. Rather, they are "corporate blogs", the PR arm of a corporate entity. These days, even your PR arm needs to be a profit center, so most of the posts will have a link to some product or other, either the author's own or an affiliate, with rare tidbits of theory and reflection thrown in. Blogging for personal satisfaction (or fun, or honing your writing skills or keeping your grandma up to date on what you're up to...) and blogging for revenue are two different things, and the aforementioned are examples of the latter. |
Thanks for your distinction. I think you nailed it. Nothing at all against the guys who write those blogs, but I tend to shy away from advertorial blogs as well. I only read a couple anyway. I had to hack them down due to time constraints. Lou's never fails to educate me/make me laugh/make me "wish I had written that."