Here’s why you should never trust endorsements—besides the general principle of the matter. NY Times reporter Marc Santora did an interview for a startup site called Big Think, talking about how technology has changed covering stories like the Iraq War. Imagine his surprise when part of it was slipped into a DigitalNomads ad, a site that’s “powered by Dell,” magically turning his interview into an endorsement.
Gadget blogs are a far reach from being oppressive totalitarian states. But the propaganda they all push, if not carefully filtered by editors, on behalf of the CE industry, can be disgusting. BBG’s ran a fantastic three day run of fictional blog posts, written as the mouthpiece of the ministry of comms of a “massive super-conglomerate”, which I highly recommend.
