August 2006 Archives
Pay Per Post – Rumor & Mystery
“Civilian journalists,” such as myself, have recently become attractive to advertising companies searching for cheap, unique grassroots PR. PayPerPost.com has taken a radical new step. They contract with advertisers for specific subjects they want blogged about, and then pay bloggers to include the information in their personal blogs. I already have Adsence ads in here, so when it’s subject appropriate, I’ll be including their ads on blogs I’m writing.
What is their angle, I wonder? Perhaps they are agents of the black helicopters, using their tracking links to monitor our personal expressions while simultaneously regulating the advertising that receives the most exposure on the web. In that case, it would only be logical that the company’ founder, Ted Murphy, is a CIA spook or an operative for the Department of Homeland Security.
Why We Write
I saw a review for a book about writing and I was led to wonder why my readers write at all. John Spivey of Blogcritics inspires me with his dilemma. How many of us give up the only lives that matter to us in order to make a living? Freelance writing, even a little, is the career that lets me hold onto myself. How can I expect my friends and colleagues to abandon their security when I am too cowardly to do it myself?
I have been flopping like a dying fish on land. I once dove along the great reef and swam through teeming life. I breathed underwater. I have to get back to writing, to my real life.
Writing is the ability to surpass ourselves; to be more than we seem. Don’t turn away from your calling, for it is a vocation as holy as priesthood,with a history nigh as long. Embrace your art & live a joyful life!
