dop’s blog

For a couple of months now [1], I am using Google AdSense to see if indeed is a viable “funding” solution. The results: my total earnings are $1.89. Clearly a sum that could buy me a chocolate bar and nothing more. Overall: nope, not a serious funding option.

I have been reading quite some time for PayPerPost that basically pays bloggers for reviews. I am not against it - although I do not follow it - and I fail to see why people get so annoyed by it: bloggers get paid to make reviews for products/sites/whatever that nobody else wants to.

It is not immoral - this is being done for years in magazines - and if you are not preoccupied against or in favor, then it is indeed useful. I am not going to try it, because of limited time.

Today, I have read that MS is giving away Acer Ferrari laptops, preloaded with Vista, to certain bloggers. Oh my God, they have made an agreement with the devil. Get serious: MS wants feedback and reviews and hype, and nobody will be making noise by her/himself. If the bloggers deliver decent reviews on Vista, I do not see anything wrong in even keeping the machines they were given.

And I strongly believe that anyone who objects, is just being jealous - why do you care if a blogger makes a review for Microsoft Vista and is actually getting a Made-For-Vista laptop to do it? If you object to that, you have an option: do not read the blog.