Comments on: Selling Inside the Blog: The Story of Wal-Mart, Conservative Bloggers, and the New York Times http://www.adotas.com/2006/03/selling-inside-the-blog-the-story-of-wal-mart-conservative-bloggers-and-the-new-york-times/ Where Interactive Advertising Begins Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:07:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Idetrorce http://www.adotas.com/2006/03/selling-inside-the-blog-the-story-of-wal-mart-conservative-bloggers-and-the-new-york-times/#comment-210466 Idetrorce Sat, 15 Dec 2007 17:06:58 +0000 http://www.adotas.com/2006/03/selling-inside-the-blog-the-story-of-wal-mart-conservative-bloggers-and-the-new-york-times/#comment-210466 very interesting, but I don't agree with you Idetrorce very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
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]]> By: Mike http://www.adotas.com/2006/03/selling-inside-the-blog-the-story-of-wal-mart-conservative-bloggers-and-the-new-york-times/#comment-673 Mike Wed, 15 Mar 2006 19:08:01 +0000 http://www.adotas.com/2006/03/selling-inside-the-blog-the-story-of-wal-mart-conservative-bloggers-and-the-new-york-times/#comment-673 Well said and reasoned, Doug. Bloggers today aren't these independent do-gooders that Barbaro wants them to be. Rather, they are more like the penny press writers around the time of the American Revolution, who freely editorialized and talked about matters of the day. They informed and conveyed information, at their most basic level. Whether the user agreed with it or not was left up to them to decide. I, as a word of mouth marketer, appreciate the vanguard of blogs and their proliferation in the last few years. The richness of opinion forces users to think before receiving that piece of information. Are there limits? Absolutely, and you and organizations like WOMMA point them out, especially when it comes to organized power. But if the anti-corporate bloggers all link up and convince others about the "evils of Wal-Mart", aren't we as users of that information all the better off? I would think so. Well said and reasoned, Doug. Bloggers today aren’t these independent do-gooders that Barbaro wants them to be. Rather, they are more like the penny press writers around the time of the American Revolution, who freely editorialized and talked about matters of the day. They informed and conveyed information, at their most basic level. Whether the user agreed with it or not was left up to them to decide.

I, as a word of mouth marketer, appreciate the vanguard of blogs and their proliferation in the last few years. The richness of opinion forces users to think before receiving that piece of information.

Are there limits? Absolutely, and you and organizations like WOMMA point them out, especially when it comes to organized power. But if the anti-corporate bloggers all link up and convince others about the “evils of Wal-Mart”, aren’t we as users of that information all the better off? I would think so.

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