[mdlug] Is MS bribing bloggers?

[bob dion]

Michael Rudas (computer) wrote:
> Here are a couple of interesting articles. Though
> Microsoft's house bloggers (Scoble, et al.) claim
> differently, this certainly seems a rather naked grab
> for positive press:
> 
> <http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2077596,00.asp>
> <http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/12/28.html>
> 
> Hmmmm... when record companies did this with radio
> stations in the '50s, it was called "payola".  People
> lost jobs and went to jail.  Why should it be any
> different for a convicted monopolist?  Wishful
> thinking, I know, but SOMEBODY has to cry foul over
> this kind of malodorous heap.

> 
Here are a couple of other articles on the this

http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS4598924090.html
http://marshallk.com/microsoft-wants-its-laptops-back

BD