I won’t lie; I’m new to the blogosphere. The sheer amount of information in blogs, valuable and useless, astounds me. It has also turned into a valuable tool for evaluating products and services. Bloggers are not shy about giving us the skinny on things they use, see or do.
I just heard that some of it may be a little dishonest. What? There is now legislation pending that would require bloggers to disclose where and from whom they receive products they might blog about.
In the interest of full disclosure, I believe I should do the same.
I use gasoline in my car. It comes from under the ground, and some of it even from under the ground in our United States. It would seem that all citizens would have some ownership of it, but actually some private company acts like they own it, extracts it from the ground, and sells it back to me.
I breathe air. My air is not all that clean. It swirls around various coal burning utility plants before it gets to me. I can assure you, based on WE Energies and our local political representatives, that our air cannot get cleaner without raising our gas prices, moving your job to China, or inviting an alien attack.
And I use sarcasm. I don’t know where I got it, and I don’t use it particularly well. Still it helps prevent me from lying to my readers.