Comments on: Should IZEA Advertisements Be Accepted On TechCrunch? (Updated)

By: Learning From The Mistakes Of Kmart, Motrin and FedEx

Learning From The Mistakes Of Kmart, Motrin and FedEx — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:26:08 +0000

[...] for placement through IZEA, a company which Michael Arrington, the most influential blogger says is: The blogging world’s pariah and are fairly routinely trashed for, as I put it, polluting the [...]

By: Are Paid Posts Polluting The Internet? : Matt’s Musings

Are Paid Posts Polluting The Internet? : Matt’s Musings — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:46:55 +0000

[...] WordPress, recently discussed on his Photo Matt blog TechCrunch’s decision not to accept PayPerPost/IZEA advertising after surveying their readership. Mullenweg added, “Their readers made the right [...]

By: Discussion on Izea @ TechCrunch « My Good Finds Org

Discussion on Izea @ TechCrunch « My Good Finds Org — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 04:54:45 +0000

[...] there is a discussion over at TechCrunch, actually it is more of a poll if TechCrunch should accept advertising from Izea(PayPerPost) or not. For me, I would say that CEO Ted Murphy of Izea should just put the money in keeping the PPP [...]

By: Discussion on Izea @ TechCrunch : Guinea Pig

Discussion on Izea @ TechCrunch : Guinea Pig — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 06:07:41 +0000

By: Buy a PR7 Link from Google for $5 a day?! | Blog Of Digger

Buy a PR7 Link from Google for $5 a day?! | Blog Of Digger — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 05:19:21 +0000

[...] all this issue about paid links, paid posts, PageRank penalties, SERPs demotion and the twisting of moral compass in advertising is giving me nose bleed. And yes, a lot of blog networks that have heavily relied on the TLA factor [...]

By: azrin

azrin — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:41:18 +0000

I stay abstained…mainly I don’t want google to bogel me all the way (meaning strip me of all my dignity) that I had to only say good things about a product, and regret if it turned the latter.

Anyway… I did mention before… if you wanna say about a product, say it with the truth..not just the sweet, but the bitterness too.

Best Regards

Azrin @ http://www.azrin.net
aka World’s NON-US WORST BLOGGER

By: Oly

Oly — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:57:16 +0000

Hmm, I agree with Matt’s post on Wordpress… pay per post is not the way to go… it pollutes the blogosphere

By: FD

FD — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 05:53:24 +0000

Mike, I posted on comment #32 that they had posted it to their forums, and it took you until comment 124 to finally see it?

The posties watch this site like beady eyed little hawks. They watch for you to post about their beloved Ted and how mean you are to him.

Here’s a novel idea.
Stop posting about Ted and his shitty companies.
Every single time you post about it, you are giving him free advertising. It doesn’t even matter if you say bad things, Ted loves all the bad press because it’s press.
What’s that saying?
There’s no such thing as bad press? It’s true, all press is good press in Ted’s eyes.
He eats this shit up.

By: notbunky

notbunky — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:14:06 +0000

I see tech bobbles.

By: 123

123 — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:52:45 +0000

111

By: Ted Murphy

Ted Murphy — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:40:10 +0000

Michael, I have already paypaled you the money we had decided for you to write this post. Please acknowledge.

Lotsa Love
Ted.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 18:52:47 +0000

You just ran a free ad for them. Izea, got it…has a new service called RealRank. A whole paid post for Izea, without them even paying. Brilliant!

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:16:20 +0000

I wish the other TC authors would get more involved with the comments on their colleagues posts…

I’d love to hear Duncan’s take on all this nonsense. Wouldn’t everyone else?

he seems to take more of a laid back approach to what so many people deem “controversial” … and having a difference of opinion among the “Green” comments would really spice things up!! Too many followers who just follow the “green”-pinion and there is no conversation… this comment space becomes a rally of sorts instead of a hodgepodge of opinions that aren’t afraid to collide…

just for the record, i think PPP/izea/poogle whatever they decide to call themselves next month, is crap. not because of their business model… i think the concept of PPP goes on all over the place and it doesn’t bother me… but i don’t like the people behind PPP. Their stupid and very public mistakes are too much to stomach… there should be no more coverage of them in any fashion. The poll has spoken. hehehe.

and you thought Hulu was “Clown Co.” … pffft. PPP has clown painted all over their face. literally.

By: I Am Not Posting To Spam My Blog

I Am Not Posting To Spam My Blog — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:03:01 +0000

I actually have less respect for them now they’ve changed their name from something that actually told you what their business did to yet another stupid word that means nothing and has “sounded clever at the time” written all over it. If you run an abattoir, you might as well call it “Joe Bloggs & Sons Abbatoir Ltd”, not “MeatPloing” or “Carvation”.

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 07:42:08 +0000

Feedpass! wow, haven’t thought about you guys in a long while.

http://www.tech...lutely-nothing/

By: Feedpass

Feedpass — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 07:31:43 +0000

Too bad. One interesting stat is that of the 603,000 readers the site claims to have (questionable FeedBurner stats), only 3,000+ even cared enough to read the post and then vote. At least TechCrunch advertisers aren’t ‘paying per “read” post’. Pun intended. I’m glad my 6 or so “yes” votes all counted, even though it didn’t prove to be enough. (; Hopefully Michael didn’t vote “No” himself 1,000 times just to skew the results.

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 07:26:53 +0000

Interesting posting on the PPP forum:

http://boards.p...opic.php?t=9753

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 07:19:14 +0000

Poll is closed and the post has been updated. No IZEA ads on TechCrunch.

By: chris

chris — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 06:33:01 +0000

techcrunch you are a bunch of idiots and hypocrites. My question is who the hell are you to tell people what the internet should be? You are not Al Gore, You did not invent the darn thing! You don’t like advertising? how often do you see an ad in a magazine that does not look like an ad except for a very small line hidden in a corner that says it is an ad? Do you no longer look at those magazines or claim they are going to be the downfall of publishing? Do you not pass link love to your advertisers? My guess is a link from techcrunch is far more valuable than from some small blog making $50 to tell people what they think of a site. If I am not mistaken that is a paid link witch the all mighty google says is BAD! You should be hit with the same penalty then right?

By: notbunky

notbunky — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 06:29:44 +0000

Wow, the Criss Angel preview just grabbed my attention away from the bottle of glue — but only for a sec. I could buy a lot of glue with the amount of money Ted has to throw around. I doubt they are going anywhere and bloggers take themselves too seriously.

By: Feedpass

Feedpass — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 05:30:27 +0000

If Ted Murphy were a smut-peddler, then Michael would have no issue with lots of most-likely-positive promotion through TechCrunch posts. If Michael wanted to protect his readers, perhaps he’d consider not profiling sex sites and giving heed to sites like AdultFriendFinder, and others. I was shocked last week to load TechCrunch only to find a picture of a man kissing/or sucking on a woman’s breast in what appears to be a foursome.

http://www.tech...-for-1-billion/

Nice. Now I’m afraid to even open TechCrunch with my wife in the room, putting the site into Not-Safe-For-Work status as well. Ted Murphy is a decent man who just happens to have started a company (PayPerPost) that Michael doesn’t like. Now that Ted has expanded and renamed the company, there is no reason not to let him advertise–except for Michael’s own personal bitterness. How about taking money from FeedPass? Or do you only accept ads from companies that you’ve given positive reviews to? Hey Ted…maybe you should acquire Feedpass and add it to your portfolio. I’m sure it would make Mr. Arrington very happy.

By: JJ

JJ — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 05:12:11 +0000

I just voted 3 times in a row. Nice poll you got there, Mr. Arrington. I think it’s funny that folks are so up in arms about this thing.

By the way, I say Yes/No. I’ve got one more vote coming my way, just to even it out.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 05:01:30 +0000

this whole post can be summed up by

“if i take their money I’m gonna look like a hypocrite”…..

….”well if I make a poll I can justify it”

Just run their ad – who cares anyway. I don’t read TC to learn about this rubbish.

By: Ron

Ron — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 04:53:58 +0000

So let’s see, Facebook and Google provide full disclosure of the information they collect and how they use it? No and still you fancy them and support their claim that there are other alternatives.

Don’t be hollier than thou, be consistent.

By: Yelp Sucks

Yelp Sucks — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 04:52:50 +0000

anything for a buck. right Mike?

frankly I think there is a lot of hypocrisy about payperpost right on this very blog. you post links to your “sponsors” without nofollow in clear violation of google terms of service.

but then again google counts paid links from the yahoo directory clearly in violation of their own terms of service.

so bottom line, don’t get on your soap box and claim any moral high ground, cause it’s BS!