{"id":1417,"date":"2007-05-11T18:06:08","date_gmt":"2007-05-12T01:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1417"},"modified":"2008-12-25T21:22:44","modified_gmt":"2008-12-26T04:22:44","slug":"caesars-wife-in-the-agora-why-i-am-disconnecting-from-bloggers-connect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1417\/caesars-wife-in-the-agora-why-i-am-disconnecting-from-bloggers-connect\/","title":{"rendered":"Caesar’s Wife in the Agora: Why I am disconnecting from Blogger’s Connect"},"content":{"rendered":"

Through the good offices of Jimmy Tomatoes<\/a>, I found out today that I am cashing in on BloodhoundBlog<\/a>. How? By means of my membership in the Amazon Affiliates program, which pumps something less than twenty cents a day into our coffers.<\/p>\n

I’ve talked about this before<\/a>, but clearly mere talk is not enough. On top of everything else I’ll be doing this weekend, I’m going to de-Affiliate every Amazon link. It’s absurd to eliminate five bucks a month of inflow — money that mostly just accumulates at Amazon.com — especially considering that our web hosting plan runs to $75 a month. But I don’t want there ever<\/i> to be even the hint of a possibility of an implication that BloodhoundBlog is compromised by pecuniary considerations.<\/p>\n

For that same general reason, I decided this afternoon to pull out of the Blogger’s Connect events at this year’s Inman Connect in San Francisco. I have had qualms about this since the moment I said I would do it:<\/a><\/p>\n

(As a matter of disclosure, I have been offered a complimentary ticket and hotel room to Inman Connect this summer. I’m scheduled to speak, so I can argue to myself that this is an honorarium, but that feels like a rationalization. At the same time, I do feel that Caesar’s Wife should be free from even the hint of a suspicion. Lucky me, I don’t have to decide what to do yet.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Brad Inman and his staff have been nothing but decent to me, but I am not comfortable with the idea that there might even be a scintilla of doubt in someone’s mind about my independence, personally, or about the independence of BloodhoundBlog.<\/p>\n

This is real life inside my skin: When Inman Connect rolled around in January, I took a little poke at it<\/a>. No big deal, except I had just started posting as a guest blogger at the Inman Blog, a position I have since resigned. Some sleazoid insisted that I wouldn’t say the same thing in Inman’s salon. And that would have been, true, too — until he said it. Instead, I wrote an extended evisceration of all <\/a>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Through the good offices of Jimmy Tomatoes, I found out today that I am cashing in on BloodhoundBlog. How? By means of my membership in the Amazon Affiliates program, which pumps something less than twenty cents a day into our coffers. I’ve talked about this before, but clearly mere talk is not enough. 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