Blogs and Advertising

Bloggers practise blogging because this is the place where they can voice their own opinion and say what they want to say without being edited. Journalists love blogging because they can say things that many of their editors could very well gag them from saying. Only thing is that many journlaists have been told to stop having their personal say if they want to remain employed. Over the past few months, bloggers have been able to add advertising to their sites. Suddenly, bloggers are no longer the free agents they were once -- they have some responsibilities because they are earning money. He who pays, says! There are rules and regulations about what you can and cannot say on your blog otherwise you get kicked off the advertising system. So, where is this free-speech stuff?
Bloggers Being Bought

The Guardian ran a story suggesting that bloggers are altering their content to attract advertisements on a particular popular topic in the hope of getting more clickthroughs. Using the pop...