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Where are they going to find five bloggers in West Roxbury by next week?
By adamg on Tue, 04/26/2011 - 3:49pm
Forbes reports that the Huffington Patch has changed its plans for world hyperlocal domination. Instead of hiring more fulltime reporters and editors, the suits yesterday ordered Patch editors to get five to ten local bloggers to start writing by May 4. No pay, but you get keep ownership of your words (shades of Boston Now).
In Massachusetts, the directive would mean signing up between 380 and 760 bloggers for the company's current roster of 76 neighborhoods and towns.
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Patch bloggers
This ad--http://clevelandheights.patch.com/articles/start-t... just one of many springing up like mushrooms at Patches all over the country today. Just try Googling "Patch bloggers news" and you'll see them. And as this ad makes clear, bloggers will not be paid. But as it says, "the space if free." Such a deal!
A fool and his/her labor will
A fool and his/her labor will soon be parted.
Money paid to bloggers is
Money paid to bloggers is money not paid to Arianna. Of course you're not getting paid, you're freely exchanging ideas in a non-competitive environment. Tell that to your landlord, see what it gets you.
Say "NO" to free!
The problem is, people WILL take the unpaid Patch positions in order to improve their own blog's hit count, thus screwing the other bloggers and freelance writers who write for money. Every time anyone writes for free, or for some piece of crap free offer item, you screw all the other writers and bloggers that are writing for a living. It is a lose-lose situation and devalues writing as a career path.