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August 19, 2004

Markets are (unpaid) conversations

Blogversations matches bloggers with advertisers. As far as I can tell from the not-enough-informational site, the blogger writes about some topic the advertiser suggests and gets paid for it. It's clear from the site's defensive writing, however, that Blogversations knows its project is in danger of being misunderstood ... or, perhaps, understood.

Unclear from the site: Is the fact that the bloggers are getting paid made apparent? And where do these "conversation" occur? Unfortunately, there's no obvious way to get more information about what Blogversations is proposing except by registering.

By the way, their phrase "markets are discussions" sounds oddly familiar...

(Thanks to John Battelle for the link.)

Posted by D. Weinberger at August 19, 2004 07:12 PM


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the producers of this offering i suspect are so skittish about its premise and prospects they've gone to the expense of a 'private' internic domain registration with GoDaddy ...

Posted by: paul m. | August 20, 2004 01:33 AM


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