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The sweet baby jesus is crying.
Good lord, the blogosphere is reacting like a woman scorned with the announcement of Robert Scoble’s speaking engagement with PayPerPost.
It’s not the end of the world folks, it’s a smart guy doing a speaking engagement. A speaking engagement with an organization who is going to likely change the rules of how blogging and advertising work together.

I’m not a huge fan of PayPerPost, but you have to give them credit.  They have completely changed the rules, changed the way we think about advertising, and are playing by a different game.  Changes make people jumpy.  Rule changes can freak out the best of us, case in point: the NHL rule changes.  I’m not saying that PayPerPost is recreating the playing field of the blogosphere, but they are certainly involved in the conversation.

That being said, why wouldn’t anyone who’s interested in changing the rules or changing the game also be interested in the conversation?  I have a feeling that Robert Scoble is very much interested in the conversation, not to metion the game.

Shouldn’t we all be? The uproar and “holier than thou” attitude of some of the A-Listers is a little fickle, considering that they are supposed to be the grandest supporters of conversations.

Good luck Robert, have a fantastic conversation. And don’t forget to change a few rules!

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Update on Thursday, February 8, 2007 at 06:25AM by jules

Further backlash to the PayperPost debacle?

Now our wee friend Mr Scoble is getting a little of the digital cold shoulder?

Could the blogosphere really be so very childish, or is it just co-incidence?

Too many questions for Thursday morning at 6:26 am 

Comments

[Adrian L]

The "A-listers" seem only interested in conversations started and maintained by A-listers. They preach open communication, only because it gets more non-A-listers reading them.

When did blogging become about stats and monetization? I briefly tussled with the idea of trying to monetize rain (after the 9rules induction) and decided that I'd likely be losing view of the reasons I started and continue to blog - because I have lots inside my head that I want to get out.

[jules]

Attaboy Adrian!
That being said - please feel free to click one of my sponsors ;-)

heh

jules