Are you a Blog Snob?

I started to write this article by picking on Marshall Kirkpatrick of Read/WriteWeb and decided not to go any further than stating that he's a misguided person. With his Google PageRank at 7 and his Alexa rank below 5000, he's displaying the typical blog snobbery I've been seeing a lot of lately.

I thought I was alone in my thoughts until I read Jaz's comment on his article and then read Ed's article on blog snobbery. Some popular bloggers think their methods of advertising revenue are more ethical than the methods of bloggers who aren't quite so popular. Are you one of those bloggers? If you are, go away and don't read my blog, ever. I'm not ethical enough for your tastes.

November 2nd, 2007 By RT Cunningham | Categories: Advertising, Marketing | Tags: Alexa, Google, IZEA, PageRank, snobbery |

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hari on November 2nd, 2007 at 11:00 pm (Reply)

Anyway, anybody who claims the ethics of selling advertising on a website has got to be a little screwed up in the head. No change that to *VERY* screwed up.

Glad I don't fall for these "big name" bloggers who are stuck in a kind of frog-in-the-well syndrome having to massage their big egos all the time.
Chris Lodge on November 3rd, 2007 at 12:05 am (Reply)

Now don't you start polluting the purity of the blogosphere again RT……
2. RT Cunningham on November 3rd, 2007 at 12:08 am (Reply)
  
  Moi?
Jay Thompson on November 3rd, 2007 at 12:35 am (Reply)

Right on RT!
Comedy Plus on November 3rd, 2007 at 4:15 am (Reply)

No, I'm not and I'm staying right here. It takes all kinds RT. Have a great day.
2. RT Cunningham on November 3rd, 2007 at 4:22 am (Reply)
  
  You KNOW that question wasn't directed at you, Sandee.
Maurice (TheCaymanHost) on November 3rd, 2007 at 5:49 am (Reply)

RT you have a great blog

I for one will also continue reading. I have spoken out before about this elitist holier than thou attitude from a section of the blogging community. "A-listers", journalists and other Luddites are forever trying to maintain the status quo and seem to fear "amateur" bloggers and certainly seem to resent them making a few bucks.

Jason C recently wrote even more vitriol about PPP over at his "blog" which was such c**p I unsubscribed and shall never read his whining again.
lucia on November 5th, 2007 at 9:27 pm (Reply)

Funny… I was tempted to comment on the Read/Write Web article Andy linked, but I didn't have time!

Anyway, I also decided that a) it wasn't entirely clear what the author meant to say in that article and b) it really wasn't worth it.

I think the fact that their article was so mushy is some what ironic given that their niche is writing advice!
aksn1p3r on November 7th, 2007 at 4:16 am (Reply)

A good blogger knows how to please his/her crowd. Not like those snobs. Whats an A-List?