Is this ethical? Few words on female blogging…

PR Girl is asking that question when referring to women bloggers who and earn money with their sites. I think it is a very complicated issue, and I understand the concerns of well established voices of the blogosphere, still – did we not join it because the internet gave us the eternal freedom of speech? I would rather like to look at the results of those blogging activities that were mentioned during the blogher.com event.
I am currently very much occupied with the reasons for all of us to blog and I understand we all have different ones. Still, in the light of current law in the UK, it is against the law for a company to conduct any marketing activities (=pay bloggers to express their opinions as well) affecting and CHANGING financial behaviour of the brand consumers. I think it’s a brilliant way of judging blogger ethics too.
As far as the writing itself is concerned, we cannot ask every single blogging person to forget about projects based around earning money. It’s just a different type of blogging with its own issues. Isn’t?

Acrobat.com

Yes, I am very impressed again...the more RSS feeds I read the more passionate I become about new web tools. Today everyone is writing about Adobe.com. And honestly I do think it's a great tool, and believe me - I had only about and hour of playing with it in between blogging anyway. So let me just refer to two reviews - one by Scoble and one on Read/Write Web - both very comprehensive, so they will tell you more than I can at this stage.
As usual - you must try it yourself to see if it suits your needs and expectations.

I am still digging inside of it...

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Bizarre

..just browsing in search for something for my book I have come across few funny sites.
We all know this:

but check the author's portfolio for other illusions - makes your braincells burn!

OK, it gets serious here: check this out - talking about crimes committed via MySpace. Hm...

And if you have not had enough, be the guest of The House, if you dare.


You can even count the time of your death, if you're interested...mine is Tuesday, March 20, 2057 - bugger, another 50 years???! ok, I am going to use a part of next 24 hrs to get some sleep. Good job I didn't enter The House:P

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Any Given Blog

..is a very promising initiative of one of my friends, and colleagues at the same time. Looks like we all get interested in social media, sooner or later. His first post tells a lot about why we do write on the web. Read it!

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Polish British web

Thanks to Robin, I got to read this cool article with ranking of the most popular websites used by UK based Poles. Interesting, how it truly reflect the reality of the lifestyle of this minority...Also, YouTube on the 3rd place. The more I learn about social media, the more impressed I become by the Polish web. Not only seeing Polish versions of international venues amongst main languages (English, German, Spanish, etc), but also reading Polish blogs on social media and checking quality of Polish websites (Zubrowka, Frugo, Heyah, and others)

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