Alec Saunders SquawkBox

Tris Hussey sets out how he thinks about blogging, product reviews, and being a corporate shill.  It is a fine line to tread, I agree.  Here’s how I think about these issues.

I don’t accept cash payments for pieces published on the site.  I do review products, occasionally, and will keep the product, or send it back (at the owners expense) depending on what the provider of the product wants.

I won’t write a positive review, just because I’ve been given the product.  Sometimes, if it’s a really bad product, I won’t write anything at all, and I will explain to the person soliciting the review why I didn’t write.  Most of the time my reviews contain some good points, and some areas where I think the product can be improved, simply because almost every product can be improved.

 

From Friday’s Globe and Mail, People want less face time, poll finds.  According to the article, a majority of Canadian office worksers would prefer to hold business meetings online, and fully 38% believe that all face to face meetings are unnecessary.  The study was paid for by Microsoft — no doubt by the LiveMeeting group.

Nonetheless, powerful new technologies and the fallout from 9/11 have led us all to be more open to new communications technologies.