Markets are (unpaid) conversations
Posted on:: August 19th, 2004
Blogversations matches bloggers with advertisers. As far as I can tell from the not-enough-informational site, the blogger writes about some topic the advertiser suggests and gets paid for it. It’s clear from the site’s defensive writing, however, that Blogversations knows its project is in danger of being misunderstood … or, perhaps, understood.
Unclear from the site: Is the fact that the bloggers are getting paid made apparent? And where do these “conversation” occur? Unfortunately, there’s no obvious way to get more information about what Blogversations is proposing except by registering.
By the way, their phrase “markets are discussions” sounds oddly familiar…
(Thanks to John Battelle for the link.)
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