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People are getting paid to blog at AOL - or not?

So check this out. I bet many of you did not know that there is a new AIM. It links to AOL.com and it’s many properties and that they now use a web page as the ‘Home’ page. This is significant if you’re AOL.

It represents a shift away from the walled garden world. AOL.com has a TON of great stuff and also Moviefone, MapQuest and oh - this thing called Time-Warner.

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Here’s a blog called Music B-Sides and here’s one run by 3 women.

It’s heartening to see AOL wake up and get a clue. Maybe now they’ll even get some synergy with some of their sister companies?

REPEAT: Their new AIM Today is actually - a web page! Imagine that!

Now I gotta wonder - “are these bloggers getting paid to wax on eloquently about R.Kelly and new kinds of bras?”

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3 Responses to “People are getting paid to blog at AOL - or not?”

  1. direwolff Says:
    November 1st, 2005 at 11:46 pm

    “are these bloggers getting paid…?” Is this really a question, or have we forgotten that Weblogs, Inc. is basically paid bloggers? ;-) Wouldn’t be so hard to appropriate them into other blogging tasks, would it? Just thinking out loud here ;-)

  2. grantley Says:
    June 13th, 2006 at 3:32 pm

    perfect site good information, very nice news and etc… tnx

  3. clipart Says:
    June 16th, 2006 at 11:07 am

    AOL has really smartened up lately. Paying people to run a corporate blog make a good use of resources. Otherwise you would have to use paid staff.