Go2Web2.0 featured @ TechCrunch.

Coup to be featured at TC, but be ready.  This site came crashing down under the flood of traffic from TC. 

One blogger asks about the relationship between blogger and featured companies at MichaelArrington Sucks.  (Obviously a blog with an opinion, whether impartial or not, you can decide.)  You will see that TC is the only featured advertiser on the site.  MAS also alleges they (blogger and site owner) are in a relationship and trade “favors.”  The owner of the site is also a powerful “digger.”  Should that all be disclosed as well?

TC states that they will expressly state and disclose when there is an apparent conflict of interest; and I take them at their word on this point. 

But, of course, the world of blogging has gone corporate.  Posts are valuable real estate.  And, perhaps inevitably, there are now businesses that even enable bloggers to sell posts to review advertiser products (with varying degrees of disclsoure).

I can’t help but be a little cynical about big bloggers.  This is after all big business.

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