It’s ashame of them that they gave away food that may affect the people’s health instead of throwing them in the garbage bin.

Krispy Kreme should clear this out. I guess this flavor of their doughnuts are not selling good that’s why they gave them away.

I agree that if “it taste like shit”, post it that “it taste like shit”.

But so far, some people already gave their comments, via my blog when I first blogged about Krispy Kreme opening a store here in our country. -> http://gameshogun.ws/Snow/2006/08/08/krispy_kreme_doughnuts_vs_go_nuts_donuts

I think they will make variants of what they have in the US. Kaya siguro sila nagpapa taste test to get feedback kung matamis nga mashado so they can reduce the sweetener or something.

@ Connie

About the links, mejo iba nga opinions natin. But I look at the links as if I were looking at Manny Pacquiao‘s jacket will all those branded patches as endorsed products.

To continue…

To “endorse” means to VOUCH for a product or a service.

Does a newspaper or a TV news program VOUCH for the advertisers? Course not. Same with blogs.

In the case of TV programs, it is when they integrate the ads with the program itself that they blur the line. Example, those Liver Aid segments in GMA 7′s morning show. That already constitutes an endorsement kahit ba may nakalagay pa sa ilalim na ad yun kasi nililito na nila yung viewer kung ano yung programa at kung alin yung commercial.

I’ve had that Budget Laptop Review in mind as well. Will post about it on PTB this week.

I also edited your comment as requested.

Not to belabor a point but ads are different, giving product samples are different. You were not paid by Globe to write the article. iFrogz didn’t pay you to write about them and require a specific length of article for the review.

Personally, I’m okay with product samples and I hope more companies give them to bloggers to try out so that as a consumer, I’d have more sources of reviews on goods and services I might want to buy.

PR people, in my experience, don’t giving product samples around and then tell you to write “at least 200 words” and within a certain time frame for the review to be valid. They’d give a product sample then pray you like the product enough to write about it. It’s just similar to product samplings you see in malls, only they’re conducting the sampling for someone who might want to write about it.

But being paid for an article, for me, is an altogether different thing. The company is buying an article from you.

It’s okay to say you’re buying ads, they’re the life blood of any mass medium. But how would you feel if you hear someone saying he’ll buy an article from your favorite newspaper or website?

With ads, even text links, you are just placing them around your pages, optimizing them, changing colors. Ads aren’t formatted as posts. They do not have headlines and facilities for comment. They are safely ensconced within boxes within the article or in the sidebar.

At first glance, even with ads blending, you’d know as a reader which parts of the site are being paid for by advertisers. But if you accept payments for stories, the space reserved for what had been purely editorial content is now also being occupied by paid content.

With a purchased article, you are actually producing something for money. You are writing something about a company that pays for the article.

But you’re right. As with most things, it ultimately depends on the person.

With that said, any chance Pinoy Tech blog can put up an updated roundup of cheap laptops for bloggers who don’t get as large a monthly AdSense check as you guys? Been scouting for one. I might e-mail you and JAngelo for advice as I turned IM off in GMail (I use a separate IM account since I only instant message with my wife