Comments on: A Moab Kind Of Weekend

By: Colin in CA

Colin in CA — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:09:34 +0000

Nevermind… just read Clyde’s link and had only read the other one. Disregard that ^^^.

By: Colin in CA

Colin in CA — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:07:37 +0000

Thanks for the clarification Clyde and Cory. It sounds like all somebody like Lou (or Clyde) would have to do is say something like, “This product was provided to WildSnow.com by Company X for testing purposes. WildSnow.com received no monetary compensation to endorse this product, although we are allowed to keep it for testing purposes and further personal use. Company X’s advertisements on WildSnow.com are funded independently of this review and whether this review is positive or negative has no bearing on Company X’s advertisements.” (Although I suppose if a product was lackluster you just wouldn’t bother writing a review of it.)

Would you even need to put that on every review? I would think that you could just put it at the bottom of your homepage unless the text is situational depending on the specific product.

By: Lou

Lou — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:44:22 +0000

This whole thing appears to be patently ridiculous. I mean, how will they EVER enforce it to the degree where it has any benefit? They have to create a whole office building full of web surfers just to read 1/2 the stuff that’s published every 6 hours on the web!

Blog credibility should be the result of the blogger’s reputation and track record, not some government harassment that can easily be avoided or just plain ignored.

At any rate, we’ll research this and make sure we comply as it sounds like they’re going to be gunning for folks to make examples of.

Just so typical. Sigh.

By: Lou

Lou — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:27:22 +0000

Cory and all, PLEASE use tinyurl.com for web addresses that are more than a few characters.

By: Cory

Cory — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:37:23 +0000

More on (moron) the FTC ruling:
http://tinyurl.com/yazl33o