Picking sides

I am usually one to avoid controversy and confrontation. When I watch the morning news shows, when they have two sides debating an issue I get so uncomfortable I turn the channel. I usually cave in an argument, melting down to just get past the ickiness and moving on to the next thing.

Which is why I think it is interesting that I have stuck with payperpost for so long. In case you were not aware, PPP is full of controversy. When it first launched, there were all these so-called A-list bloggers who really thought the idea was awful and made the internet know their opinion. (I guess they aren’t really A-list if I never heard of them until after I joined PPP, are they? Plus they are bloggers who blog about blogging, not something I really read a lot of.) Just reading their opinions on the topic was enough to make me uncomfortable and if it had been a morning news show, I would have turned the channel.

Yesterday PPP announced that they had secured $3 million in venture capital to continue with their blog advertising business model.

I’ve decided that since I am on the “PPP’s ok with me” side of the fence, that this $3 million is a good thing and will help this new marketplace even out sooner rather than later. The podcast over on TalkCrunch (where they discuss the controversy and the $3 mil) is pretty interesting to listen to, but again the whole controvery thing… I kept wanting to put it in the freezer. The blog entry over at TechCrunch is easier for me to read and I was able to get through all the comments, which were especially interesting to me because some advertisers actually came out in defense of PPP. Reading their comments made me feel more secure in my decision to be on this side of the fence.