Yes folks it’s Monday and there for the start of another week of the most excellent podcast starring Sean P. Aune and myself in tonight’s show. In light of tomorrow being the first of the month we figured that what better topic to start the week with than the impending implementation of the FTC witch hunt regulations for bloggers.
For those that don’t know tomorrow is the first day where you are going to be required to plainly disclose your relationship in every single post that has to to with review products. Doesn’t matter if the items are hardware, software, or books you have to inform your otherwise brain dead (at least this is the FTC’s opinion) readers who can’t tell that they are being shilled to.
There’s still a whole bunch of questions that the FTC has failed to answer about this whole thing. Like – where are the disclosures suppose to go? Do we have to go back through all our archives and add disclosures? Does this apply to only American bloggers whose blogs are hosted on American servers? Does this apply to bloggers who live in other countries but host their blogs on servers in the US.
In other words we know squat but can still get screwed for $11,000 if the FTC decides we messed up somehow. And a Merry Christmas to you to.
Oh and ya we also spend a minute or two on the sad heart-breaking story of the Crunchpad.
Posts referred to in the show.
Get Ready for Blogger Shameless Tuesday (And Help Us, Too) – Valleywag
Disclose This: I Can’t Disclose Everything Everywhere! – Louis Gray
Why the CrunchPad mattered – CrunchGear
Enjoy the show.
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While both Sean and I are hoping that everyone is having a great time with family and friends this Thanksgiving long weekend in the US the rest of the world gets to carry on like it is a regular Thursday which of course means another show.
In light of it coming up on a long weekend in the US things are getting a little on the quiet side as everyone is prepping for the turkey snooze expected to make the tech blogosphere a wasteland of news Sean and I decided to do a more of an off the cuff show tonight.
