By: Jessamyn West,
on 1/24/2008
Now the story comes full-circle. Wired publishes a story by my friend Mat who I paid $10 to blog about how awesome libraries are. You may recall I mentioned this before. I even made the article!
By: Jessamyn West,
on 11/19/2007
My web friend Mat Honan does a lot of neat stuff. He does triathalons, he writes for Wired, he goes traveling to interesting places. I follow him virtually via Vox and Flickr and other random places, not in a stalker-y way but just in a “hey this person is interesting” way. I think we have friends in common, but I don’t know him in person. So, when he started doing pay-per-post posts to his blog, I wasn’t sure if he was making a big joke or earnestly trying to make some money. His posts were definitely interesting and amusing, not taking themselves too seriously it seemed. However, I was and still am a little skeptical about this whole pay-for-placement thing. I keep an eagle eye out for it in libraryland, and I think many of us do. While I don’t think we’re perfect at this game by any stretch I like to think that you go to the library, and your librarian, to get objective information not filtered through shopping incentives, advertising and viral marketing.
I thought this was a worthwhile point to make, so I decided to pay Mat Honan to make it for me. Ten dollars well spent, I think. Don’t you?
Resisting. Urge. To comment.
It’s OK, Mat. Go ahead & comment. I’ll send you a dollar if you say in your comment that librarians suck.
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[…] rmShowAd(”300×250″); Jessamyn West, who has been putting the rarin back in Librarian since 1999, posts about the fact that someone she respects has started doing pay-per-post postings. And then she goes […]
I think my head just exploded from the meta.