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Blogging for Dollars

by arthur barbato
Thursday, February 8, 2007. 07:43AM
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The uptrend of web 2.0 blogging is a wave that must be rode, but increasingly, the corporate world is finding difficulty doing anything beyond defenestrating in-house submissions. So prevalent is this tendency to find absolutely nothing but yawns and banal sleep inducing posts in-house that blogging is the latest corporate function to be out-sourced!

Just look at these Advertising Industry Blogs that have, well, virtually died on the vine:

BBDO Click to Open Web Page DNA Blog http://blog.dna.co.uk Sense Click to Open Web Page TBWA Click to Open Web Page No doubt about it, writing about yourself is a most difficult exercise.

Here's how it works.

The outsource blogging media firm charges a Brand or Senior Corporate Entity for the work done, upon approval, so both Brands and Companies can enjoy the snarky humor and unique perspective of some of the brightest writers on the planet.

Blogging, as we all know, can sometimes leads to self-loathing and self-deprecation one degree shy of razor blades applied to the wrist with firm pressure and as perversely funny as rubber necking an accident, tattoos on the forehead, etc., as evidenced by some of the flames posted as comments below.

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Monday, February 12, 2007. 08:06PM by EXIT3A .com
6º of Separation - yes, I know about it. I don't believe it. Cloudy math. Or, fuzzy math. Whatever. It's not very crystal. At least not like the ball.
Friday, February 9, 2007. 11:59AM by Buddy 'Friendly' Wachenheimer
In God we trust, all others pay cash. That's right cash... no checks, no IOU's, no debt or credit cards, no money orders, no promissory notes- just cash, dig? Good. When I'm President I will declare war on the Pope for back taxes.
Friday, February 9, 2007. 11:16AM by b y
Maybe the Pope knows a Catholic priest in the USA, that priest knows one in your area who grew up next door to a good friend of a relative, that relative taught you something that is talked about in this blog. 6 degrees of Separation: the theory that anyone on earth can be connected to any other person on the planet through a chain of acquaintances that has no more than five intermediaries
Friday, February 9, 2007. 08:20AM by EXIT3A .com
Is that in Fahrenheit or Celsius?
Friday, February 9, 2007. 08:19AM by EXIT3A .com
Here we go again: An = And
Friday, February 9, 2007. 08:13AM by b y
Tom, you have heard about the six degrees, no?
Friday, February 9, 2007. 08:12AM by b y
The woes of a capitalistic society, no less. Everyone likes to make money. If you were all millionaires, would you be here proving how much you are worth? Everybody likes money. Bottom line. Bet your bottom dollar.
Friday, February 9, 2007. 08:12AM by EXIT3A .com
I read certain weblogs out of an obligation. I’m not sure why I feel an obligation, but I do. An though I’m not Catholic, I have a feeling this unexplainable, out-of-nowhere obligation must somehow be connected to the Pope.
Friday, February 9, 2007. 04:19AM by Buddy 'Friendly' Wachenheimer
Fuck it is right, chum..... Weblogs are fucking stupid. Weblogs suck ass. What the fuck is up with this shit? Fuck. Who the fuck cares what these people think about oatmeal or what the UN did last week? Nobody! Who reads these weblogs? Nobody! Maybe fellow weblog authors read each others weblogs out of a sense of desperation...the feeling that if they read someone else's weblog, someone will read theirs. It's kind of like cooperative advertising too, people will cross-post, linking weblog entries to each other's weblogs. How fucking pathetic is that? I hate weblogs. There are so few reasons to keep a weblog, and so many of these are fucking stupid while so few of them are legitimately non-brainfucked. The problem of course, is people. In general, people are fucking stupid, so many of the things they do are fucking stupid. I fucking hate weblogs, they are so fucking stupid.
Friday, February 9, 2007. 01:18AM by EXIT3A .com
Oh, fuck it
Friday, February 9, 2007. 01:17AM by EXIT3A .com
Yet another example: but I’m hesitant to do = but I hesitate
Friday, February 9, 2007. 01:15AM by EXIT3A .com
For example, too = to
Friday, February 9, 2007. 01:14AM by EXIT3A .com
Just in case anyone is watching, or reading, I’d like to make a few tweaks to the syntax in my post below but I’m hesitant to do because of a programming glitch – in my machine – that usurps a weblog and substitutes my name with the original blogger. Any such move, however unintentional, would be a travesty to Mr. Barbato’s fine and enlightening weblog. P.s. Don’t be a wussy wonk.
Friday, February 9, 2007. 01:00AM by EXIT3A .com
Hola Payola! Who the fuck wants to work for those ‘real’ rags. The whole point of blogging is too stick it to those capitalist mother fuckers. Can’t you see? The corporate world is losing, and they know it, so now they’re trying to sway you to their side, just as they always do whenever they meet an opponent that can’t be easily whooped, with the almighty penny. Ah, you make me sick to my finger-bones.
Friday, February 9, 2007. 12:53AM by EXIT3A .com
You mean this isn't real?
Thursday, February 8, 2007. 09:48AM by Marc Lefton
Adholes is the blogging minor leagues. If you do well you get to work for real blogs and magazines. Like Noelle Weaver got discovered on here for Ad Age.
Thursday, February 8, 2007. 08:34AM by michael Iva
Arthur, if the money and terms are right, I will blog for them like no one else can. (Also, mention the concept of using "Antidotes for Propaganda" if they really want something powerful and unique.)