In the recent past, Performancing has had it’s share of troubles, with failed attempts at selling the site, the CEO leaving, the other principal members threatening to bail, etc.

More news on this as the story develops throughout the blogosphere.

Update 1: Aaron has an exclusive interview with blog broker, David Krug, up at Technosailor. (Thanks Darren)

Update 2: More on the sale of Performancing from the Blog Herald, 901am and Shoemoney.

Performancing, David Krug, Darren Rowse, SplashPress, Technosailor, 901am, Blog Herald, Shoemoney

Or see this post for more details.

Rocketboom, Amanda Congden, Joanna Colan, Andrew Baron, Huffington Post, MTV, VJ

Problogger Junior, Xavier, Darren Rowse

Update:

Amanda sets the record straight in a new post on her AmandaUnboomed blog here…

Amanda Congdon, Rocketboom, Unboomed, Amanda Quit, Amanda Congdon

…this isn’t about citizens or amateurs vs. professionals. We’re all in this together. Journalism is a collaborative venture. Journalism is a network.

I think there’s still some evolution that needs to happen before Citizen Journalism and traditional journalism work together with the degree of harmony Jeff talks about, especially in the linking and giving credit areas. MSM and a lot of the bigger players almost never link up to bloggers.

It’s all about them and their thunder, not us and our ripples.

It’s changing though, slowly but surely.

citizen journalism, networked journalism, Jeff Jarvis, Buzzmachine

Oh well, the time off is doing me good after all the extra work I’ve been doing. There’s nothing like a 4 day bender few days of relaxation to rejuvinate one’s blogging prowess.

I’m not going to link directly t0 the cause of the current shitblizzard that’s brewing, but I’ll link to a few opinion pieces on it.

Marshall Kirkpatrick’s TechCrunch article spells it out pretty well. But if you do some checking at Technorati for the names of the companies referenced in MK’s article, you’ll see a whole bunch of bloggers talking about the BW article and how the blogosphere isn’t ready for paid posts. They talk of how bloggers credibility will be ruined if they accept payment for posts, if they should do full disclosure, be transparent, disclose their earnings, etc.

It’s like this is a new thing or something!

Meanwhile, if one checks through the archives of some of the long time bloggers out there, one finds that this discussion has been going on for at least 2 years. See this post (and notice the date on that post) by JW over at Ensight.org.

Then, if you are so inclined, do some Googling for the term blogging for dollars. It’s been going on for years folks. It’s nothing new. Or is it?

Is the blogosphere like a fish bowl and bloggers like goldfish? You know what they say about goldfish don’t you? How, a goldfish sees something as he swims past a point in his bowl and on his way back around a little later, what he saw is new all over again. Are bloggers memories that bad?

WTF? *lol*

Oh wait, I don’t have all my data straight here - since the last big pay per post debate, 100,000,000+ new blogs have been set up by 10’s of millions of fresh new bloggers - who don’t have their data straight either.

Addendum: So for all you bright eyed, bushytailed bloggers who’ve been doing this less that a year but now have a good readership, here’s what’s happening: The BW article on PPP is link bait. bizweek is baiting you all with something controversial to rile you up and get you to link to them, because we all know how valuable links in the content of blog posts are right? Companies are willing to pay you for them - but BW is smart - they know the churn-rate in the blogosphere is high, and they got you to give them those valuable links for free by rehashing a tired old topic.

I’m sitting next to John Furrier at Gnomedex and he says he heard from Bob Wyman last night that PubSub has shut down and their engineers have found jobs at other companies.

My home internet access has not been working since early this morning and I’m at a friends house posting this from her computer.

Danm! I knew I should have grabbed a cheap laptop at BestBuy when they were on sale last week. I would have been able to go somewhere with a working wifi connection and blogged from there.

I’ll be back writing when my connection is back.

Now, after my previous rant about JC and his new baby, let’s see if I can’t get Bloglogic.net on the front page - without getting edited into oblivion. *Grin*

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