Comments on: A review of ReviewMe

By: Robert

Robert — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 21:11:05 +0000

ReviewMe is a good a additional revenue source for bloggers. Some of my friends are writing reviews on their blogs, works well for them.

By: Matt(Brother)

Matt(Brother) — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 19:29:16 +0000

I think if the chance to make a little bit of money, doing something you love can be done, you should take the chance. Not only that, but your letting other people know what else is out there.

Speaking of which, I redesigned MyCeite.com, Erik. Tell me what you think. I decided to make it my own blog.

By: kartooner

kartooner — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 23:19:20 +0000

Yeah, several have certainly been bitten. Now we’ll see if this bug remains or if it’s as widely accepted as a monetary means of support as expected.

What I’m not entirely clear about is whether or not you have to maintain a quota or if not, if you can simply pick and choose (which I’m thinking you can).

By: beto

beto — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 20:19:46 +0000

Man, you got stung by the ReviewMe bug too I see…

These kind of things leave me wondering what the hell is the so-called blogosphere coming up to: Textual versions of late-night infomercials? Now, we can expect the likes of BoingBoing and similar A-listers to take the plunge and exploit their obscene traffic numbers to generate wads of cash off this. Nothing intrinsically wrong with that, that is to be sort of expected — what gets to me is that, for the vast majority of people with a blog and a rather small audience, the ROI isn’t going to be sexy enough to justify turning your space into what basically will be a sponsored billboard, positive reviews or otherwise. And in that context something like this would do them more harm than good to them in the long term.

Note that I’m not saying I won’t ever give it a try… it’s just that I’m quite skeptical of the long-term benefits of business schemes like these in terms of a given site’s reputation and credibility.

By: Jason Sikes

Jason Sikes — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 20:55:23 +0000

Really, I’m not sure how I feel about this. On one hand it seems like it could be a good thing, y’know, paying bloggers for what I’d assume be honest reviews, yet therein lies my concern with this. That bloggers might only see the green as the driving force for these reviews and throw out their honest evaluation out the door.

I think I’ll stay on the fence about this.