Comments on: BlogBurst Wants to Give Us Money http://www.bivingsreport.com/2007/blogburst-wants-to-give-us-money/ The Bivings Report (TBR) is a source of news, insight, research and analysis on the web-based communications industry. TBR content is posted, created and managed by internet strategists, media/communications analysts, web developers, designers and programmers, all of whom are employees of The Bivings Group. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:41:03 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Eric Newman http://www.bivingsreport.com/2007/blogburst-wants-to-give-us-money/comment-page-1/#comment-40826 Eric Newman Fri, 19 Jan 2007 16:05:09 +0000 http://www.bivingsreport.com/2007/blogburst-wants-to-give-us-money/#comment-40826 I encourage you to look at the BlogBurst contributor agreement in its current state. We changed it considerably in Q3 to remove a number of the onerous requirements after hearing feedback from a number of bloggers. You can read more about it <a href="http://www.blogburst.com/blogger/agreement.html" rel="nofollow">here</a> If you still feel there are issues, please let us know. We are constantly re-evaluating the offering/agreements/etc to make this a successful service for our blogger and publisher partners -Eric Newman, Pluck (BlogBurst) I encourage you to look at the BlogBurst contributor agreement in its current state. We changed it considerably in Q3 to remove a number of the onerous requirements after hearing feedback from a number of bloggers. You can read more about it here

If you still feel there are issues, please let us know. We are constantly re-evaluating the offering/agreements/etc to make this a successful service for our blogger and publisher partners
-Eric Newman, Pluck (BlogBurst)

]]> By: Micro Persuasion http://www.bivingsreport.com/2007/blogburst-wants-to-give-us-money/comment-page-1/#comment-38723 Micro Persuasion Thu, 18 Jan 2007 11:08:07 +0000 http://www.bivingsreport.com/2007/blogburst-wants-to-give-us-money/#comment-38723 <strong>The Double Standard on Compensation...</strong> Earlier this week I wrote about how ZDNet is compensating its bloggers based on traffic to their posts. What's unclear is how long they track the clicks. Even though a particular post may not get a lot of views immediately,... The Double Standard on Compensation…

Earlier this week I wrote about how ZDNet is compensating its bloggers based on traffic to their posts. What’s unclear is how long they track the clicks. Even though a particular post may not get a lot of views immediately,…

]]> By: Todd Zeigler http://www.bivingsreport.com/2007/blogburst-wants-to-give-us-money/comment-page-1/#comment-37699 Todd Zeigler Tue, 16 Jan 2007 20:58:41 +0000 http://www.bivingsreport.com/2007/blogburst-wants-to-give-us-money/#comment-37699 Robin, Great point. I noticed how onerous their contract is when I signed up. I will take a closer look at it. For us though, the benefit of exposing more people to our content outweighs the copyright concerns. Others will legitimately reach the conclusion to stay far away from BlogBurst given the issues you describe. Robin,

Great point. I noticed how onerous their contract is when I signed up. I will take a closer look at it. For us though, the benefit of exposing more people to our content outweighs the copyright concerns. Others will legitimately reach the conclusion to stay far away from BlogBurst given the issues you describe.

]]> By: Robin Hamman http://www.bivingsreport.com/2007/blogburst-wants-to-give-us-money/comment-page-1/#comment-37290 Robin Hamman Tue, 16 Jan 2007 11:37:26 +0000 http://www.bivingsreport.com/2007/blogburst-wants-to-give-us-money/#comment-37290 I was initially enthusiastic about blogburst myself but was set straight by a commenter who posted a link to this: http://www.medgadget.com/archives/2006/05/beware_blogburs_1.html Apparently, blogburst's terms and conditions amount to a rights grab - here's an excerpt from the blogburst terms and conditions, as quoted in the post I've linked to above: ... you grant to Pluck and its affiliates a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual license to reproduce, distribute, make derivative works of, perform, display, disclose, and otherwise dispose of the Work (and derivative works thereof) for the purposes of (a) modifying the Work without substantially changing its original meaning, and (b) distributing the Work (and derivative works thereof) to Publisher electronic web sites or corresponding printed editions, whether now known or hereafter devised. I was initially enthusiastic about blogburst myself but was set straight by a commenter who posted a link to this:

http://www.medgadget.com/archi.....urs_1.html

Apparently, blogburst’s terms and conditions amount to a rights grab – here’s an excerpt from the blogburst terms and conditions, as quoted in the post I’ve linked to above:

… you grant to Pluck and its affiliates a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual license to reproduce, distribute, make derivative works of, perform, display, disclose, and otherwise dispose of the Work (and derivative works thereof) for the purposes of (a) modifying the Work without substantially changing its original meaning, and (b) distributing the Work (and derivative works thereof) to Publisher electronic web sites or corresponding printed editions, whether now known or hereafter devised.

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