[quote post="794"]There’s a good chance that a short comment with three links will get deleted by spam filers or a busy moderator. Or maybe it’s all an evil conspiracy.[/quote]

Well, many other comments have 2 or 3 links, so, at that time, I didn’t thought that Akismet would mark it as spamm. Anyway.

Nova:

[quote post="794"]Your post about Robert Scoble was incorrect. He was not paid. He is an independent journalist. We don’t pay people to report on us. I think you might want to retract that suggestion as it is really wrong to suggest that.[/quote]

Well, this is what I have done.

Dan:

[quote post="794"]I think you’re over-reacting a bit. There are any number of reasons why this might have happened. Can’t see anything to be gained from throwing accusations like this around in public…[/quote]

Well, over-reacting I don’t know. I reacted yes, but over-reacted I don’t know. I was wrong right, but I used my personal blog to ask a question about something that was looking wrong. I have sent email, waited 3 days, so I asked the question on my blog to seek for a question.

But your comment have something interesting. In fact I am a developer, working on Semantic Web projects, that have a personal blog to write about (mostly) its projects, the things he done, things other people do, etc. Now i used this same medium to react to something that was happening that seems of “public domain”.

Well, I don’t know what to think about that. Yes it is public domain, but such a situation raise interesting questions. Is my personal blog the same impact/duties has more traditional journalisms and news site?

Anyway, why should I have something to gain to write something like that? I didn’t had anything to gain, and it is probably a reason why I wrote it. I only had a question, I wrote about it and I quickly got an answer.

Take care all, and thanks for your comments.

Salutations,

Fred

Well, I understand for Akismet, the spam is terrible out there and it is the reason why I sent you an email 4 days ago. Anyway, it is always possible that you didn’t received it, it is the sort of things that happen regularly on the Web

So I changed this blog post to rectify what I said. I have been wrong, but I had my reasons to wrote and publish it at that time. Now that I get a (quite fast) answer, I know I was wrong, that is it.

So now i wish you continue to dig deeper in our community to find all the things that should hit the market soon enough.

Take care,

Fred

Let’s assume that it is a conspiracy. Bloggers, like journalists, live in that fat grey zone of undue influence. A good review can make or break a project, and the writer knows it. What does he expect in return? Don’t think gifts or stock — too sleazy. What a journo craves most is access. What he fears most is being cut out. Tips like this enhance his reputation as an insider. That’s the quid pro quo.

Say hello to the new journalism, same as the old journalism.

If you had asked via email I would have looked for it.

I’ll check out these companies. Thanks!