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+There's yet another service joining the rapidly expanding paid-review market pioneered by PayPerPost. [SponsoredReviews][1] is a new site designed to help bloggers get paid for writing reviews of advertiser's products and services. SponsoredReviews isn't publicly available yet and but their blog [promises][2] a beta test phase is coming soon.
+SponsoredReviews offers a few clues in the their FAQ. Disclosure is required, though I can't find any specifics on what sort of disclosure, and payments will range from $10 to a whopping $1000 per review. 
+The Blog Herald thinks that with price tags of up to a $1000 SponsoredReviews is poised to introduce [a new ethical dilemma][3] for bloggers. Dave Winer on the other hand, [believes][5] that these services are simply a more transparent version of a very old practice. TechCrunch's Michael Arrington has long held that PayPerPost and its ilk [are a modern-day payola][4]. 
+Payola is a term describing a practice in which record companies paid radio stations to play whatever tracks the companies wanted to promote without reporting that the spot was paid. The practice is illegal in the United States though it's common in other parts of the world. The reasoning behind the U.S. law is that since radio stations report and publish their playlists and those publication in turn influence other stations the record companies could gain an unfair advantage in the market place.
+A similar argument could be made against PayPerPost services since links from prominent blogs can raise the Google rankings of advertisers participating in the service.
+I tend to agree with Arrington, though I think that Winer has a point too. Ultimately there is probably no such thing as a truly unbiased review, but if a blogger discloses that they were paid to write a review how useful is that for the discerning consumer?
+Call me paranoid, but I probably wouldn't make it past the disclosure sentence in a paid review. Of course SponsoredReviews doesn't have specific guidelines available for disclosure, the site merely says blogger should "state the words 'Sponsored Review' or you can integrate it into the content." Okay, but would a style sheet rule like this be okay?
+p.disclosure { font-size: 1px; }
+Hopefully not. The FTC recently said word-of-mouth advertisers and reviewers [must disclose their relationships][6] which even includes things like products that have a MySpace page.
+	
+Interestingly, while SponsoredReviews claims negative reviews are okay, the official guidelines on the site read:
+>*	Reviews must be written according to the terms set by the advertiser.
+*	Constructive criticism is encouraged, however, reviews that are hateful or non-constructive will not be accepted.
+*	Reviews must be permanent and archived.
+*	Disclosure that the review is sponsored is mandatory.
+What constitutes non-constructive from an advertisers point of view? Would a review like "this service is an adware-ridden nightmare best avoided at all costs" be considered non-constructive? As a reader I might consider that informative, constructive and good to know, but the advertiser would likely have a different opinion.
+At this point it looks like these services are here to stay so, while the ethics may be debatable, the real question is what will the long term effect be? Will blogs featuring paid reviews be shunned, is the whole blogging realm doomed or is this much hoopla about nothing?
+[1]: http://www.sponsoredreviews.com/ "SponsoredReviews"
+[2]: http://www.sponsoredreviews.com/blog/?p=7 "SponsoredReviews Launching Soon"
+[3]: http://www.blogherald.com/2007/01/15/sponsoredreviewscom-jumps-into-the-pay-per-post-fray-introduces-new-ethics-quandry/ "SponsoredReviews.com Introduces New Ethics Quandry"
+[5]: http://www.scripting.com/2006/10/02.html#whyPayperpostIsBetter "Dave Winer on PayPerPost"
+[4]: http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/15/another-payperpost-virus/ "Another PayPerPost Virus"
+[6]: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/11/AR2006121101389.html?nav=hcmodule"
+Pull My Strings
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+<img alt="Wiredblogs" title="Wiredblogs" src="http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/wiredblogs.jpg" border="0" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;" /> Elsewhere on Wired:
+*	Over on Cult of Mac Leander Kahney has an awesome rundown on why people still [prefer the Newton][1] to even the potential of the iPhone.
+[1]: http://blog.wired.com/cultofmac/2007/01/in_1998_steve_j.html "Apple Newton Versus iPhone"
+*	Wired Science brings news of a development in which a pox could possibly be used to [kill cancerous cells][2].
+[2]: http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/01/using_a_pox_to_.html "Using a Pox to Kill Cancer"
+*	My personal fav of the day, Gadget Lab has has a post about [tires infused with essential oils][3]. Imagine if you will... monster truck rallies with a hint of lavender and jasmine in the air...
+[3]: http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/01/kumhos_scented_.html "Kumho's Scented Tires"
+*	Table of Malcontent isn't [wearing pants][4].
+[4]: http://blog.wired.com/tableofmalcontents/2007/01/improve_everywh.html "Improv Everywhere's No Pants! Subway Ride"
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+Popular AJAX framework [jQuery][1] is one year old today and marks that milestone with a [1.1 release][3]. JQuery has long had a devoted following who tout it's speed and lightweight structure which make it easy to integrate complex effects with on a few lines of code.
+The new version of jQuery boasts numerous enhancements including bugs fixes, speed improvements and a simplified API. The creators of jQuery have also overhauled the documentation and gathered the previous scattered tutorials and guides [into one website][2].
+There's a page available to [run speed tests][4] on jQuery 1.1 and the new documentation site should be a boon to web developers looking to get started with AJAX.
+[1]: http://jquery.com/ "jQuery Javascript Library"
+[3]: http://jquery.com/blog/2007/01/14/jquery-birthday-11-new-site-new-docs/ "jQuery New Site New Docs"
+[2]: http://docs.jquery.com/ "jQuery documentation"
+[4]: http://john.jquery.com/speed/ "jQuery speed test"
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+<img alt="Nightlybuild" title="Nightlybuild" src="http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/nightlybuild.jpg" border="0" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;" />The Nightly Build:
+*	Mark Cuban's Dallas Mavericks franchise has [launched MavsWiki.com][1] a wiki designed to, "be a collaboration between the Mavs and their fans, with the goal being to document every game the Mavs have played." It'll be interesting to see if this catches on.
+[1]: http://www.nba.com/mavericks/news/Mavs_Launch_MAVSWIKICOM.html?rss=true "Mavs Launch Mavswiki.Com"
+*	According to [Apple Insider][2] "Core 2 Duo-based Mac owners who want to unlock next-generation 802.11n wireless technologies hidden inside their computers will first have to fork a few bucks over to Apple." The 802.11n enabler patch will cost $4.99. Certainly $4.99 per person can't mean much to Apple, why not just give it away?
+[2]: http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=2398 "Apple to impose 802.11n unlocking fee on Intel Mac owners"
+*	Footnote, Inc. has [announced an agreement][4] to digitize selected records from the vast holdings of the National Archives. 4.5 million pages are already online and waiting for your annotations. 
+[4]: http://www.footnote.com/nara.php "National Archives Records available on Footnote"
+*	Linux doesn't get enough coverage on this blog and I think it's high time we changed that. I just spent the last half hour [listening to the Linux Action show podcast][3] and decided that the Monkey Bites Linux love must spread. As of yet I have no plan, but in the mean time give the show a listen.
+[3]: http://www.linuxactionshow.com/?p=75 "The Linux Action Show! Podcast"
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+<img alt="Any_key_3" title="Any_key_3" src="http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/any_key_2.jpg" border="0" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;" />The Morning Reboot:
+*	Apple has given a iPhone skin for Windows Mobile [the legal smackdown][1]. There's such a thing as trademark protection, but this seem extreme. Fortunately for the hardcore users who absolutely much have the iPhone skin on their Windows Mobile device, the creator of the skin has posted instructions for creating you own version (see link above).
+[1]: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=1097832#post1097832 "iPhone skin removed"
+*	Drupal, the popular PHP-based content management system, has [released version 5.0][2]. Today also marks the sixth birthday of Drupal. Drupal powers a number of popular sites including [The Onion][3].
+[2]: http://drupal.org/drupal-5.0 "Drupal 5.0"
+[3]: http://www.theonion.com/content/ "The Onion"
+*	The rumors of an HD-DVD encryption crack appear to be true; TorrentFreak [reports][4] that an HD-DVD torrent of [Serenity][5] is now available. Can we end the BluRay/HD-DVD format "war" now?
+[4]: http://torrentfreak.com/first-hd-dvd-movie-leaked-onto-bittorrent/ "First HD-DVD Movie Leaked Onto BitTorrent"
+[5]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serenity_(film) "Serenity"
+*	The FBI is [warning of an email scam][6] in which the scammers suggest a "hitman" is on the trail of the recipients. The FBI site notes: "Please note, providing any personal information in response to an unsolicited e-mail can compromise your identity and open you to identity theft." (Note: The FBI's web design budget appears to very very small.)
+[6]: http://www.fbi.gov/cyberinvest/escams.htm "FBI warns of email scam"
+*	If we spent our time reporting every scam, phishing attack and other security hack that hit MySpace we wouldn't have time for anything else, but this one is funny. Someone apparently hacked MySpace's "Tom" account (the default friend for all new members) to [send out a link to a phishing scam][7]. Not news really until you consider that the Tom account has roughly 148,059,490 friends. What we'd like to know is how much money a phishing attack against MySpace can really generate -- do they ask users to steal their parents credit cards or something? [via Digg]
+[7]: http://i12.tinypic.com/3zk2jvr.jpg "Phishing scam screen grab"
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+Okay I'm trying to get with this whole [radical transparency][1] thing we're pushing here at Wired so I thought I'd give you a heads up on a story I've been researching.
+A couple weeks back, around the beginning of the new year, the mainstream media got caught up in series of stories about how RSS would be a breakthrough technology of 2007. RSS savvy Monkey Bites readers might yawn when Reuters [tries to explain][2] a six year old technology to the masses, but we thought maybe now would be a good time to see how "power users" are utilizing RSS.
+I've been digging around the web for technologies and services that allow you to do more with your RSS feeds. 
+So far I've been looking at a variety of services that do RSS via SMS with a particular emphasis on filtering so only the most important things get sent to your phone. I'm familiar with [Zaptxt][3] and Yahoo's "Alerts" which [offers something similar][4], but if you prefer others let me know.
+I've also been playing with Google Reader's new "Trends" analytics tool, which can tell you a lot about your reading habits, but I'm still not sure if it's all that useful.
+I'm currently enamored with the idea of archiving meaningful feeds via email and I've been testing [RSSFwd][5] and [RMail][6] which both offer feeds delivered to your email account. But so far I haven't found a way to do exactly what I want, which is to have only items I've flagged sent to my email account.
+This weeks Tutorial 'o the Day theme will be RSS power tips and at some point this may develop into a a full article, but in the mean time let's hear what you think. While the rest of the world is just getting up to speed, chances are Monkey Bites readers are already pushing the envelope, so let me know what your favorite RSS tips are in the comments below.
+[1]: http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/2006/12/what_would_radi_1.html "What Would Radical Transparency Mean For Wired?"
+[2]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyID=2007-01-02T053910Z_01_N29192014_RTRUKOC_0_US-COLUMN-PLUGGEDIN.xml&WTmodLoc=InternetNewsHome_C2_internetNews-4 "Untangle the World Wide Web with RSS"
+[3]: http://zaptxt.com/home/ "Zaptxt"
+[4]: https://login.yahoo.com/config/login_verify2?.intl=us&.src=ntfy&.done=http%3A%2F%2Falerts.yahoo.com%2Fmain.php%3Fview%3Dblogs "Yahoo Alerts"
+[5]: http://rssfwd.com/ "RSSfwd"
+[6]: http://www.r-mail.org/ "RMail"
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+As I promised in the last post, this week's theme for Tutorial 'o the Day is RSS tips, tricks and hacks. If you don't know what RSS is, dig out from under that rock and get thee to a search engine.
+Since most of these are one liners, we'll do two a day.
+One of the frustrating things about RSS is that once you start using it you expect every site to offer feeds for every single chunk of data, which, unfortunately, few do. For instance, what if you want to get all of my colleague's posts and avoid me like the plague? There's no easy way to do that with the feeds that this page offers.
+Here's a trick from [Micro Persuasion][3]'s Steve Rubel: search by byline and/or column title on Yahoo! News and then subscribe to the search as a feed. Every time your favorite writer has a new article published it'll show up in your feed. The only draw back being the slight lag time between when the article is published and when Yahoo News finds it, but hey, it's better than nothing.
+The second tip for the day comes via the blog [Get Rich Slowly][2]. Thanks to [isnoop.net][1] it's easy to track your local movie listings even if the theaters near you don't have their own RSS feed. Just plug in your zip code and the scripts on isnoop will scrap Google to give you a list of theaters with movies, show times and an RSS feed for each. Combine those in your favorite RSS reader and you have an instant list of what's playing, where and when. 
+[1]: http://isnoop.net/rss/theater.php "Theatre Search"
+[2]: http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2007/01/14/custom-movie-listings-with-rss/ "Custom Movie Listings with RSS"
+[3]: http://www.micropersuasion.com/ "Micro Persuasion" 
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