Some people just don’t get Problogging

Sus, hayaan mo ang ibang tao. Expectations lang nila ‘yon, which you don’t have to meet.

Hi Andrew,
“But what I’m trying to say is: don’t be too quick to generalize.”
Are you addressing this to me? If you are then I’m sorry if you see it that way but I’ve never generalized (as far as I can recall) in fact I’m trying to stress the diversity of the blog world and the diversity of ways bloggers are making money and how it’s not an all or nothing thing.

That’s why I keep saying you don’t box it in, add artificial limitations that blog’s are this and could never be that. That’s why I reacted to your generalizations on bloggers and journalists. I don’t accept payola by the way and I object to your generalization (you could have qualified it as some). My family starved for more than a year because my wife and I decided we wanted to work for a newspaper that’s owned and run by its readers (a coop) but that’s for another post.

I do not know which part of my post you object to or if indeed you object to it or if it’s some other blogger you object to but I think it’s pretty clear that what I wrote about ReviewMe focused on why I though the program isn’t for me because of the nature of my main job. If what I wrote offended you, then I’m sorry.

I did say in my blog post that I see it working for other blogs…on how the arrangement can be viewed as being paid to join a product test, only that you are also blogging about it.

But Abe didn’t appear offended (he says we’re cool) and in fact I learned a lot from our discussions on the issue. It’s nice to disagree with someone without being disagreeable.

On a completely different note: here’s an interesting study :-)
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2169723/asian-blogosphere-surges

I particularly love the last paragraph.

Andrew: Blogging can be journalism. Take a look at TechCrunch, Mashable, or GigaOM.

Don’t publishers put ads on their newspapers, magazines, tabloids and other publications to earn money???

There is a difference between bloggers and journalists. People who don’t see the difference are delusional. Bloggers are web loggers… they log onto to the web their experiences, thoughts and opinions. Journalists ideally report to the public, the truth, uncensored, unbiased and balanced. There are some instances where bloggers can be journalists, but that doesn’t mean that all bloggers (pro or nonpro) are journalists.

Max, no matter how you put it blogging is still different from journalism. Journalists represent the press, bloggers respresent the public. Journalists report the news, bloggers eat the news for dinner. That’s that. Me implying that blogs amount to nothing? How did you come up with that? Are you quoting Leo Magno?

I’m a blogger myself. What I write about is my business, whether you like it or not. I’m not under anyone’s payroll (or payola) unlike journalists. So honestly, a journalist telling me how to run my blog is simply irritating.

Andrew,
Let me just point this out because you said you “have a hunch that it’s a journalist who’s giving you a bad time.” Abe and I have recent discussions on ReviewMe.com and there are points we disagree on but in no way did I criticize monetization of blogs. I was only talking about the ReviewMe program and if you read our various discussions, you’d see that I was in fact, saying that blogs are great media for reaching consumers.

You say: “That’s why we have to draw the line between blogging and journalism. They’re two different things.”

I disagree. It is not the medium that defines journalism. It is the way you do things. When you say that, you sound like those people in mainstream media who say blogs won’t amount to anything.

You say: “Journalists won’t like the fact that you’re being paid to write about something.”
But that’s not true. Abe isn’t being paid to write about anything (except from sponsored posts). He earns from what he writes through ads and referral links but Globe didn’t pay him to review their product. Smart didn’t pay him to review their service. They just provided him demo units and access to service. They did not hand him money and say: you write about us.

Let us know when you make your first Mil-lion. Sounds like a cool job.

IMO im not a fan of a certain title like a problogger thing. I think “blogger” is enough what im saying i’ve been into programming for 20yrs. now and i don’t call myself as proprogrammer, programmer is just enough.
Oh well, sometimes title doesn’t matter as long as you’re making good money from what you’re doing best!!
just my $.03

thanks for the info btw, would you believe?…all i know is adsense, textlink and amazon before this…

to casual readers, ads makes a website. consider it a thank you for the hard work.(yes, it is hard work to maintain a website or blog)

* i meant writing a certain article.

For a student like me, it will be hard to become a problogger. hehe…

Sana someday pero i will focus on my studies first.

ahh…hayaan mo ang mga yan. sabi nga pag maraming bunga ang mangga, maraming bumabato! ;-)

wala naman pong masama kung pinagkakakitaan natin ang mga blogs natin. Parang alam ko yata ang tinutukoy ni Sir Yuga sa post na ito (hmmmmm journalist ba? secret)

Yung ginagawa ntin dito ay katulad lang naman sa ginagawa ng mga TV network natin dito sa Pinas.

Ang masama sa tingin ko ay yung tatanggap tayo ng pera para pumatay ng tao o di kaya ay ipropromote natin ang mga produktong nakakamatay….

hmm. kapag may nagrereklamo sa mga ads sa blog ko, ang sagot ko lang… “pwede ko namang alisin, basta ba yung kinikita ko sa ads, babayaran mo eh.” =)

puso mo pare…

There just jealous….ingitero…ingitera…you are doing great, and that’s what’s important.

At the end of the day, it’s still your blog. You do what you like.