tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post8907838387307556396..comments2008-05-02T00:15:24.229-04:00Dan Reedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10594208011755406956noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post-45008175239195261762008-05-02T00:15:24.229-04:002008-05-02T00:15:24.229-04:00Petersen must've found your blog analytics favorable so there should've been compensation. Petersen's P&L statement isn't measured in good intentions.NexLvlDadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07839379363226314412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post-13884416884850324792007-06-21T12:29:47.356-04:002007-06-21T12:29:47.356-04:00Why do I have this weird feeling that at least one of your anonymous commenters might work for the commercial venture in question?<BR/><BR/>This reminds me of something that happened after I attended a "blogger summit" at the Washington Post. Strangely, a week later, I started getting e-mails from an NYC-based marketing company, working for the post, trying to convince me to create blog entries to advertise events connected to the Post. That was a bad idea on their part. I blogged, but about the tackiness of a commercial venture like the Post trying to get free advertising out of me.Merujohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14123831956012950960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post-63845372118473205462007-06-21T11:06:50.647-04:002007-06-21T11:06:50.647-04:00I think its unreasonable for you to ask for compensation for a community event advertisement. You regularly advertise and push developments that have not even been approved. Are you getting money from the developers too? Are you doing this for money?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post-78058479250342194462007-06-20T10:32:20.904-04:002007-06-20T10:32:20.904-04:00I thought "compensation" might be as simple as someone from Peterson returing a freaking phone call!<BR/><BR/>The nerve of those people to complain about you not giving their company free publicity.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post-90445133783662578562007-06-19T13:30:17.454-04:002007-06-19T13:30:17.454-04:00When I read your post and came to the word "compensation" I was <I>not</I> thinking financial compensation, I was thinking "you help us out, and we'll work with you on other subjects and we'll build a relationship with you." I have had no direct dealings with Peterson, as southsilverspring.org doesn't typically deal with issues outside of our immediate community. I have, however, heard from many people of how Peterson is very uncooperative with local residents, businesses, and organizations. They seem more concerned with their own immediate financial success than the success of the community which financially supports them.Jimmywww.southsilverspring.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post-34800555670354743792007-06-19T10:54:10.081-04:002007-06-19T10:54:10.081-04:00I can see posting the text of the schedule for the concerts and such, but the flyer itself might be another matter. Retailers (and other organizations) have paid to be sponsors of the event and have their logos on the flyers, and posting the piece in its entirity would be a promotion - albeit implicit - of groups that have given Peterson Companies money for said sponsorships.<BR/><BR/>And to reiterate JUTP's theory, their apparent lack of cooperation in matters of photography in publicly-funded areas is enough of a "Man (with a capital "M") trying to bring us down" issue to reduce efforts of compliance on the part of the SS Blogging Collective.<BR/><BR/>Sure, it might seem petty, but there you have it. Deal with it. This is not about monetary compensation. It's about commercial interests that shouldn't be promoted within a community forum. And if you want to be taken seriously, don't post anonymously.Thayer Avenuehttp://www.thayeravenue.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post-48571693371357802007-06-18T17:19:14.671-04:002007-06-18T17:19:14.671-04:00Why would you expect to be compensated for posting press releases? I don't understand. Are there other items on your blog that have been paid for by an outside entity, and if so, which ones? They should clearly be labeled as paid promotions if that is the case.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post-14961257516144733242007-06-18T10:50:53.337-04:002007-06-18T10:50:53.337-04:00I think its funny that you are complaining about being compensated. Obviously, you have time to post things about other events going on in Silver Spring. Do you ask them for compensation? If you remember, Silver Spring wasn't the hottest place to be a few years ago. If it wasn't for the developers all the Silver Spring blogs would have nothing to talk about.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30306615.post-40934099581031829302007-06-18T07:42:47.462-04:002007-06-18T07:42:47.462-04:00Why are you looking at half naked kids?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com