Comments on: Steve Rubel Says Forrester Says Paying Bloggers is OK Provided There are Disclosures

By: Bill Ives

Bill Ives — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:07:30 +0000

Harold – Thanks for your confidence. We will try to keep you reading. Bill

By: Daniel Tunkelang

Daniel Tunkelang — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:43:45 +0000

Bill, you might want to read (and perhaps address) the reactions to Forrester on this subject, most of which haven't exactly been positive. You can see a collection of such reactions on : Techmeme.

By: Bill Ives

Bill Ives — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:17:29 +0000

Daniel _ Thanks for the link. I am not surprised with the reaction. – I liked Jeremiah Owyang's post http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2009/03/02/how... Now he is a Forrester blogger but I think he was balanced and open. As he said it can be a very intense topic. There have been many mistakes in how firms engage with bloggers, especially when there is not full disclosure. I do want to be clear that we are not doing what Forrester describes and what ReadWrite Web argues against . http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/forrester_is... I am sure that ReadWriteWeb does not object to making a business use of blogs judging by all the ads on their site. I also generally like their stuff. However, we are not getting paid to blog about our sponsors which is what ReadWriteWeb objects to. We are blogging about the broader market space with complete freedom to write what we want and are operating with full disclosure. If the sponsor does a blog post then it is identified. I remain pleased to be involved with this experiment and have great respect for my fellow bloggers. In the end it is the readers who decide about the blog and that is great thing about blogs.

By: Daniel Tunkelang

Daniel Tunkelang — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 12:41:23 +0000

Bill, you might want to read (and perhaps address) the reactions to Forrester on this subject, most of which haven't exactly been positive. You can see a collection of such reactions on Techmeme: http://www.techmeme.com/090302/p111#a090302p111 — in particular, this article on ReadWriteWeb: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/forrester_is...

By: Harold Jarche

Harold Jarche — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 02:08:22 +0000

You folks are doing just fine and FF won't be leaving my aggregator unless you drastically change what you're doing.