The obsession of disclosure

"The key for PayPerPost model is disclosure, which is what got the company in hot water with the blogging community before. When the company launched in June 2006 without a disclosure policy, PayPerPost was lambasted. In October, Murphy implemented a disclosure policy that lacked teeth–it was up to the blogger to disclose as he or she sees fit. Murphy says the move cost him about 50 advertisers out of about 3,500 and a small number of bloggers. In December, PayPerPost made it mandatory that bloggers disclose they are being paid."

Posted by Larry Dignan @ 12:20 pm
Categories: General, Web Technology, Blogging

In a World where 50 words out of 100 are said to promote something or someone I see this business of disclosure as an obsession.
Soon there will be Blogs where it is written:

"Commercial free"

Or post where it is written

"No harm, this is an unsponsored post"

As if when somebody writes what he thinks couldn't be dangerous...
If I write what I think I am sponsored by my brain, if I write for PayPerPost I am sponsored by somebody else.
That doesn't mean that I write things I do not believe, or I distrust, or I dislike.
5 or 10$ are not enough to change my mind...
But are nice to give me the chance to say what I think...
I personally prefer it to ads that appear on my webpage randomly, that I do not know where they come from, or what they promote or where they will bring the one who clicks.
At least I control what is on my blog from the first to the last word and I write WHAT I decide TO WRITE and I have the chance to refuse to promote things I do not believe in...