as a daily reader of yours and tom moody's blog, and a looker of design sponge I have to say I support your effort.
in my Bloglines Design-Sponge is in the same group of blogs as Funfurde, Gizmodo, Cool Hunting and We Make Money Not Art. None of these blogs I beleive has an a pr company behind... it does not matter if it's 1 post a month or 1 post in every 30 posts I believe those sponsored posts should be flagged up..
In Gizmodo despite being sponsored by a lot, you see a different insight that belongs to someone who knows what purpose a blog should serve.. Infact the whole "oh my god! oh my god!" attitude of design sponge makes it clear that you can easily expect an "oh my, I am soooo gonna buy this!" mark for a "sponsored post"
one blog came to my mind when I read about the article in times is a Penis Enlargement pill blog. thepill.blogs.com which renews itself periodically and comes to a new "it really works" conclusion by a devoted blogger every 8 months... sponsored by the company of course.
I don't think a blog at blogspot.com with the title "musings of a design junky" and no description of affiliation with a PR firm is ethically much different than thepill blog... oh and those pills did not work.
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in my Bloglines Design-Sponge is in the same group of blogs as Funfurde, Gizmodo, Cool Hunting and We Make Money Not Art. None of these blogs I beleive has an a pr company behind... it does not matter if it's 1 post a month or 1 post in every 30 posts I believe those sponsored posts should be flagged up..
In Gizmodo despite being sponsored by a lot, you see a different insight that belongs to someone who knows what purpose a blog should serve.. Infact the whole "oh my god! oh my god!" attitude of design sponge makes it clear that you can easily expect an "oh my, I am soooo gonna buy this!" mark for a "sponsored post"
one blog came to my mind when I read about the article in times is a Penis Enlargement pill blog. thepill.blogs.com which renews itself periodically and comes to a new "it really works" conclusion by a devoted blogger every 8 months... sponsored by the company of course.
I don't think a blog at blogspot.com with the title "musings of a design junky" and no description of affiliation with a PR firm is ethically much different than thepill blog... oh and those pills did not work.
- turgan 2-02-2005 9:18 pm