  Zoning friendship for commerce  Bookmark and Share Friday, Jul
7, 2006  The Consumerist has a link to this site, PayPerPost,
which hopes to match companies with bloggers willing to shill
for them for cash—without anyone else needing to knowing about
this arrangement, of course. (Media columnist Jon Fine wrote
about this site in the July 10 BusinessWeek too.) God bless the
Internet. How else would the people with no integrity be able to
find each other? “You’ve been writing about Web sites, products,
services and companies you love for years and you have yet to
benefit from all the sales and traffic you have helped generate.
That’s about to change.” Hell, why should professional editors
at lifestyle magazines hoard all the benefits of belching out
disguised advertorial copy? Everyone should be able to dirty
their hands in the corporate slush pile. Perhaps people will be
able to leverage their MySpace friend lists into earning better
rates for doing a little word-of-mouth for whatever product
needs pimping. “