You may notice that over there on the right, the BlogHer Ad sidebar deal isn’t running any ads.
They got upset about my 23andMe post. I knew that I wasn’t allowed to do paid reviews or run other ads above or parallel to theirs, but I didn’t realize that I couldn’t cross post things from a place I’m paid to blog to this blog. (I don’t plan to do that often — cross posting seems boring to me.)
They gave me 24 hours to sort out getting the post to an ad-free page. There were instructions on how to do it in a wordpress blog, but seriously, my technical skills are inadequate. I might be able to make the changes they want, but not in 24 hours.
But I’m kind of annoyed.
I don’t know if I’m going to make the changes. I don’t really like someone telling me what I can’t talk about here.
While I like the company and the ads — by and large, they make it easy — the money more or less covers paying for the blog, but not a whole lot more. On the other hand, am I going to spend the time and energy finding advertisers on my own? Not really.
Anyway. That’s what I’ve been thinking about for the last day or so.
That, and I’ve been cursing bureaucracy in the form of challenges communicating between the Wisconsin and Georgia departments of Labor. I *think* I understand what I’m supposed to do to get unemployment compensation. Unfortunately, I can’t test that theory for another 48 hours.
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Liza, It pretty much goes against every fiber of your being you to allow ANY organization to censor you.
I’m just sayin’.
Wow. I would be pissed. Also, I am impressed that they monitor that closely!
Eh, money comes with strings. If you don’t like the strings, don’t take the money.
I suspect they don’t monitor that closely, but a lot of blogher-paid bloggers posted about the same thing on the same day, so it’s not like it would fly under the radar.
It suck, don’t it? Sigh.
They monitor, believe me! That’s how I found out that my post about 23andMe being in violation — I didn’t think I was doing anything against the rules!
Of course I don’t like the strings. But every job comes with parts that you don’t like. Still trying to figure out if the parts I don’t like are more of a PITA than the money is worth.