PayPerPost is an interesting yet controversial new web service that pays bloggers to write about certain topics or products.  TechCrunch recently wrote about this new form of blog advertising, giving some details about venture capital and other mumbo jumbo "grownup" ideas.  I personally think it's a great idea, as long as people are honest.  Unfortunately, judging from all of human history, people aren't honest, so this will most likely eventually turn into another spam advertising platform where someone with a lot of money will pay for someone else to write positive things about their negative product/service.  It sucks, but that's how it is.  However, on the positive side, this can be a really cool way for bloggers to get some money and advertisers to get their product known.  Several times in the past, I've written about products that have blown me away with their effectiveness and/or ease of use.  I sometimes jokingly put a little note at the end of my posts saying something like, "Hey I just advertised your product because I really like it.  Feel free to send me some money."  I don't think that would ever actually happen in real life, but maybe PayPerPost will change that.  TechCrunch says that the controversy stems from "the fact that advertisers can mandate that posts be positive on the product".  This is essentially bribery:  An advertiser is paying a person to give a positive opinion.  To makes things clear, I won't be accepting bribes.  PayPerPost has a very simple "choosing" system.  You can choose to write about a certain product, or you can choose not to.  It's quite simple.  I won't be letting my violent, greedy love of money get in the way of expressing my hateful, erroneous, and mostly irrelevant opinions. 

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