librarian.net » payperpost http://www.librarian.net putting the rarin back in librarian since 1999 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:37:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Wired and pay-per-post and librarians and you http://www.librarian.net/stax/2231/wired-and-pay-per-post-and-librarians-and-you/ http://www.librarian.net/stax/2231/wired-and-pay-per-post-and-librarians-and-you/#comments Fri, 25 Jan 2008 07:13:03 +0000 jessamyn http://www.librarian.net/stax/2231/wired-and-pay-per-post-and-librarians-and-you/ 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!

]]> http://www.librarian.net/stax/2231/wired-and-pay-per-post-and-librarians-and-you/feed/ 1 metacommentary – librarians are awesome, and clever http://www.librarian.net/stax/2197/metacommentary-librarians-are-awesome-and-clever/ http://www.librarian.net/stax/2197/metacommentary-librarians-are-awesome-and-clever/#comments Mon, 19 Nov 2007 20:17:05 +0000 jessamyn http://www.librarian.net/stax/2197/metacommentary-librarians-are-awesome-and-clever/ 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?

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