Comments on: 10 Wordpress plugins I can’t blog without

By: Jure Cuhalev

Jure Cuhalev — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:57:36 +0000

As far as I am concerned, Lijit is an opt-in and since there's a fair
amount of competition in any startup market, publishers can decide for
themselves.

Revenue sharing is not something that is option for me, so as far as
I'm concerned, Lijit is doing great job and I'm happy to let them keep
pennies from my blog. For more serious publishers, I'm sure they can
negotiate with Lijit directly and don't need any unions in this free
market.

By: P.U.B.

P.U.B. — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 09:14:37 +0000

Hey Jure,

Checking in, looks like fair representation by Lijit is still not an option for Publishers. Will check back to see if this changes,

P.U.B.

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:02:25 +0000

Some great plugins listed here. I tried Lijit Search and it didn't work for a time, but I left it be, came back to it, and now it seems to be working well. Although I do wonder how site visitors react to it… The way it takes over the screen and shows all those causal relationships in a graphical web-tree format might alarm folks a little!

By: Barney Moran

Barney Moran — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:57:09 +0000

Hey Tara and the Lijit team,

When we started the Blogger’s Union in 2008, we thought P.U.B.’s role would be simply working for fairness and transparency for Publishers, but with Lijit’s focus on personal attacks instead of addressing questions of revenue and content use, P.U.B. is also the place to take the heat for asking the important questions of Publisher vendors.

The feedback P.U.B. gets from other union presidents is all the same: “Welcome to running a Union”, and they advise this is exactly the role P.U.B. now also serves: Protect the individual Publisher from exactly this type of personal assassination.

In the interests of letting Publishers and their readers make their own informed decision, P.U.B. will post the link to Lijit’s personal attack on the Bloggers Union Website, and ask Lijit to waive its current censorship of P.U.B.’s comments on the Lijit Blog after our initial comment. If Lijit needs us to repost we can, just let P.U.B. know.

Sound fair?

PS: Thank you Jure for having this thread on your blog, transparency is everything.

By: ghosttie

ghosttie — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:11:52 +0000

Apparently Disqus is working on the spam problem…

By: tarable

tarable — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:17:47 +0000

Barney, we've been nothing but transparent with our motivations.

You can read about our revenue-sharing program here: http://tinyurl.com/4ppygu

Or you can read about how we use your content here: http://tinyurl.com/56r7cz

But how about you, Barney? Why don't you provide some transparency about your continued attacks on Lijit? Does everyone know about your past history with Lijit?

If they don't, they can read our side of the story here: http://tinyurl.com/5pdc9j

(Sorry about this Jure, but I like to make sure that our publishers know the truth.)

By: tarable

tarable — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:09:13 +0000

Jure, great list and thanks for adding Lijit as the bonus. Let me know if you'd like some help in tweaking the plugin to make sure it works with your theme. We'd be more than happy to make sure you can actually use Lijit on your blog.

BTW, I saw Andraz Tori speak recently at Defrag and he did a great job. Hope all is well with you and Zemanta.

By: Jure Cuhalev

Jure Cuhalev — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:55:17 +0000

More spam and broken reply-by-email functionality. Afterwards, I didn't
even bother with investing more time in it.

By: ghosttie

ghosttie — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:50:58 +0000

More spam or something else?

By: Jure Cuhalev

Jure Cuhalev — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:43:21 +0000

Sadly yes. IntenseDebate had even more problems