Jason Feels Threatened Again, Mouths off Again
- By: John Andrews [privmsg] On 10th Mar 2007
It seems everybody's out to disintermediate Jason these days, and he doesn't like it. This time it's sponsored blog posts. As someone who built media networks (blogs, specifically) in order to sell sponsored advertising, I suppose he is threatened by the idea of individual bloggers earning revenue. No need to be a network, or part of a network. Of course he has to mention prostitution and "making love".
"PayPerPost versus authentic blogging is like comparing prostitution with making love to someone you care for deeply. No one with any level of ethics would get involved with these clowns," said Jason McCabe Calacanis, an entrepreneur who co-founded Weblogs Inc., a network of blogs that includes popular technology site Engadget.
I had to think carefully about his analogy of Pay per Post to prostitution. I finally got it when I studied the second part of his analogy " ...making love to someone you care for deeply". I guess when a blog network takes money to cover something, it's because they care deeply about the sponsor (i.e. "are in bed with the sponsor"), where individual bloggers are just whoring (no need for a bed... any dark street corner will do).
Do help me understand if I got this wrong.