In response to a digg I made, In Defense of Edelman over Bribery Charges, schestowitz posted a link to eWeek, Bribing Bloggers, and my response was that eWeek had a “journalist who has journalistic rules passing judgment on folks who are bloggers, who have no responsibility outside of the obvious trust-relationship that the bloggers have with their readership.” The rest of my comment — much longer — below.
“Fair enough, except you have a journalist who has journalistic rules passing judgment on folks who are bloggers, who have no responsibility outside of the obvious trust-relationship that the bloggers have with their readership. So, the rules are bloody different. In the case of bloggers versus reporters, reading blogs requires much more “caveat lector” which means, let the reader beware. Discernment. Like I said before, I am pretty sure that there were no demand that these laptops would result in good reviews. But, of course, running a pig like Vista on anything less than a gaming box would not show off the fanciness of Vista as well as running it on the Ferrari; otherwise, Vista would be seen as what it is: a hardware killer that demands you upgrade all of your machines in your home, home office, and office. See, Microsoft doesn’t like all of that getting out.”
