Attention Blogosphere: Curves Ahead

Are you confused about the PayPerPost blogstorm that’s been raging since Friday? Apparently it’s not over, people still are commenting about it even over the holiday weekend.

For the most part, I’ve already said my opinion, and am just watching –not just because I broke the story to TechCrunch, but also because I have friends on both sides that are still sorting it out.

I do think the conversation is continuing, if not evolving –here’s a few things I’ve noticed since Friday:

• Shel Israel’s blog post on this has an interesting dialogue
• Some are questioning if Ted’s “Mother who needs Payperpost” is real
• TechCrunch Comments: Ted has offered 100 dollars for the first 10 people who will use the service.
• James Durbin goes on a major offensive against MindComet and PayPerPost
• Mike Challenges the differences of Techcrunch Advertising vs PayPerPost
• My Comments: Continuing conversation occurs on my recent posts on OpenMind.
• Andy Beal’s reference to the Red light district is a chuckle/cry.
• Ted at PayPerPost has posted several thoughts, responses, and answers to this, including meeting with a board of equity advisors next week
• Edit: Ted is surprised someone said something nice about him –via David Krug (added July 2nd afternoon)

In my quest to understand this better, I must ask:
If PayPerPost requires paid reviewers to disclose they are being paid (from a truthful review) how is that different than bloggers putting full disclosure advertisements on their blogs?

I’m waiting to hear responses from blog heavy hitters like Scoble, Rubel, Winer, Doc…

Edit:

• Clint has let us know Scoble has answered
• So has Randy –but he’s an advocate