Bloggers Must Disclose Product Ties

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“Bloggers, Tweeters and online marketers will have to tell consumers when they are paid or given freebies to write positive reviews or postings, federal regulators said Monday.

The Federal Trade Commission released updated guidelines Monday designed to provide clarity for bloggers and other online writers about their responsibility to provide consumer disclosure as well as liability issues they face for making false or deceptive claims about products and services.” (WSJ)

Not an issue for me, since I am not paid or given freebies by anyone for anything I write on FmH. (See the ‘disclaimers’ section in the right hand sidebar.)

‘Typealyzer’ on FmH

This is derived from an analysis of the content of FmH, knowing nothing else about me:

“The analysis indicates that the author of http://followmehere.com is of the type: INTP (“The Thinkers”), the logical and analytical type. They are especialy attuned to difficult creative and intellectual challenges and always look for something more complex to dig into. They are great at finding subtle connections between things and imagine far-reaching implications.

They enjoy working with complex things using a lot of concepts and imaginative models of reality. Since they are not very good at seeing and understanding the needs of other people, they might come across as arrogant, impatient and insensitive to people that need some time to understand what they are talking about.”

via Typealyzer

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Wired Magazine Suggests Bloggers Give Up the Fight

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Amit Agarwal: “The current issue of Wired Magazine carries some provocative advice for bloggers – shut down your blogs and take refuge in places like Twitter, Flickr or YouTube.

The reasoning is that stand-alone bloggers can’t keep up with a team of pro writers, like Engadget or The Huffington Post, who crank out up to 30 posts a day.” (Digital Inspiration)

Yes, but that’s not why we weblog…

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