TechCrunch does it again…

For some reason, Mike Arrington has a personal vendetta against the PayPerPost.com business model of paying bloggers to write about certain products or services in their blogs. It’s like he thinks that paid blogging is a sin of some sort, but in reality it’s a great way for bloggers to make some extra cash for doing what they love.

Anyway, this time Mr. Arrington is bitching about PPP’s new DisclosurePolicy.org framework. PPP just launched DisclosurePolicy.org, which provides an automated disclosure policy for anyone’s blog in a few simple steps. Based upon Mr. Arrington’s past gripes, it seems to me that this is a great way to address the sometimes covert nature of certain PPP advertisers’ post requests. Of course, it would be too easy to appease Mr. Arrington just by paying bloggers to post a disclosure policy in a standard format that any blog reader can understand and easily find. That would make too much sense.

I honestly feel that Mr. Arrington is upset that the little guy, like me, can make actual money by doing what we love. No matter what PPP does, little Mikey is going to be 100% against it. I’m almost at the point of thinking that Mr. Arrington is on the PPP payroll just to make a stink and get PPP some extra publicity from a different angle…hehe. (Sorry Ted.) ;^)