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I just discovered Peter Wright’s blog. Peter is the Director of Coding Stuff at PPP, or, as his business card reads, Vice President of Software Development. He states that CodeHappy is his personal blog and represents his personal thoughts.
Peter vented a bit about his frustration with A-listers and journalists that get PPP all wrong when it comes to disclosure. To be fair, when PPP launched las summer they did not require disclosure; however, disclosure has been a requirement since last fall. So, it appears some of these bloggers heard about PPP a while back, locked in on one thing, and never when back to do their research a year later when they wrote about it.
Peter wails a bit about how they ‘get it wrong’, but I’m a believer in root cause analysis, a leftover of the days when I was employed doing meaningful work (hint, hint, folks!). So, why do people like Scoble and Karp ‘get it wrong’?
They opined based on an outdated policy. They didn’t check their facts.
“A lie told often enough becomes the truth.”
- Lenin, from Quotes of the Day
Reasonable people can disagree, and I encourage people to challenge me where I am wrong because it forces me to think harder and work harder and be better. But, if you’re going to throw darts at someone or some entity, at least click one damn link and check out the ToS.
And, once again, we have people that get paid to blog telling us that getting paid to blog is a Bad Thing.
I should probably write a separate post about the ethics of paid blogging, but I’ll give my highly-personal view: The posting of a paid review in itself is not unethical. A paid review without disclosure, presenting a product/service in a light in which it would otherwise not be presented is unethical. To suggest a blogger is unethical without bringing context into the discussion is unprofessional.
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