The American FTC passed a ruling this morning that goes into effect Dec 1st of this year. In short, all bloggers that receive any sort of compensation from companies (free product, trips, etc.) must disclose that information on their blogs. If they don't both the blogger and the company can get in trouble. http://n4g.com/industrynews/News-406215.aspx Obviously it only affects companies/bloggers in the US. Wonder how well something like this would go over in Europe? -hl718
Or if the blog software is hosted off shore. This sounds like online gambling all over again. I wish they would just make the bloggers come right out and say, "look, I'm a sell out and have no fucking clue what I'm talking about. Don't listen to me".
Didn't know that Blogs required corporate transparency. After all, blogs are RANTS, not proper reviews, so wtf?
It is one of those things that sounds good on paper but will prove impossible once they try to put it into practice. It is just too broad and too vague.
No only if they could get magazines and websites to do the same thing. Reviewer = "The fit and busty PR girlie gave me one before I reviewed this game. Yes Mr Fox and the three bears despite glitching like crazy, requiring you to stand on the the last pixel on a rock and face the exact direction to the nearest second and has a last boss that take 3 hours to defeat is definately a classic game and worthy in anyones collection..."
At least its a step in the right direction. Whats the point of a review if its biased as all hell because the person was given perks.
reviews are biased by default. There's this pesky thing called opinion and most people shouldn't be allowed to have one
Theres already companies in charge of making connection between hungry bloggers and companies willing to give them freebies in exchange for some words from a minor playa. Who cares, blogs are a dying fad anyway...
