An interesting concept: PayPerPost, which pays you to write posts about certain topics. For example, if everything goes well, I should get paid for making this post.

This is certainly going to blur the lines between what I'd normally write and what I feel compelled to write. Obviously, if someone is going to pay me a few bucks to write a post on this (I would have written this posts even if I wasn't getting paid because the concept is interesting), it certainly gives me an incentive to write.

But do not worry. I'm not going to turn this journal into a walking commercial enterprise. I'll probably only write about things that I would have normally written, and I'll leave a disclosure if I'm getting paid for a certain post. I certainly won't be plugging any products or sites that aren't worth it, either. I'm sure the months of you reading my pointless ramblings have build some level of trust (although my constant YouTube embeddings may have destroyed some of that respect and trust a bit), and I won't try to take advantage of that ;)

I don't think it's that wrong for people to try to make a little money off their blogs, as long as there is some transparency in it.

So onto the service. Signup is easy, and taking "opportunities" is pretty easy too. There generally seems to be $5-$10 per blog posts, which works out well. The only thing I found a bit disturbing was that they required my Tax ID (SSN) upon signup. The signup form was secure, but it still made me a bit uneasy. Maybe do some sort of aggregate payments (you get paid through PayPal) and force people to give a taxID then.

Disclosure: This post has been sponsored by payperpost

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Posted by roy on June 30, 2006 at 02:29 PM in Ramblings | 6 Comments

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Yasir Rosli (guest)

Comment posted on January 28th, 2008 at 04:37 PM
Here we are discussing this issue when we can try out payperpost ourselves. It's like being a fan of American football (gridiron) and not liking soccer just...just because. Stop being ignorant and try it for yourselves, you'll probably be happy you did.

P.S I actually have yet to try it, but I will I promise you I will.
Comment posted on July 1st, 2006 at 09:08 PM
@_@ Rooooooy! Tabulas Red Spam Alert! I was spammed like 19 times today. That topped the 11 I had the other day. Please do something about this. I have no idea where they're coming from.

Perhaps you'll consider one of those weird letter code things at the bottom of the comment box. Only I know you hate those things. T_T

Save meh!

sung (guest)

Comment posted on July 1st, 2006 at 08:45 PM
roy i can't believe you support that slimey site. a program where people get paid to push products but disclosure is optional.

sell out!!
Comment posted on July 1st, 2006 at 08:10 PM
Is that for real? Have you gotten paid yet for any of your posts?

michael (guest)

Comment posted on June 30th, 2006 at 08:54 PM
Yeah, steal my identity ... I wish! Maybe then I could get a new one ... LOL
Comment posted on June 30th, 2006 at 03:36 PM
Yah their SSN thing scares me so that's why I won't sign up. I mean what if they give away your identity to someone?