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Burger King WIN vs. Spago 9rules

Responding to the Accidental Hedonist WIN controversy, Paul Scrivens releases the 9rules contract. In this little contract, the blogger promises to keep up the amazing work and display the 9rules button. 9rules promises “to provide you with the help to make your site successful and to make it easier to accomplish the goals you have set forth for both you and your site. We also promise that your site will be given equal weight on our homepage regardless of traffic or design.” Foggy, yes, but a more encouraging direction. This paints WIN even more as the Burger King of networked blogging: it’s blandly branded, massive, treats employees like commodities, and pulls in more than the cozy 9rules mom-and-pops.

Phu Ly’s analysis, quoted earlier, goes on:

In comparison to the “volume first” approach of Weblogs Inc, 9Rules has gone in the other direction to actively recruit quality. What is particularly interesting is that the authors are not being directly compensated in monetery terms for their writing. In addition, via it’s recruitment philosophy and the type of blogs it has gathered, it is directly rewarding and encouraging quality over quantity.

In comparison, Weblogs Inc has entered into a “work for hire” arrangement with it’s members. Is being paid badly is worse than not being paid at all? Well, maybe, if it breeds resentment, and creates an adverse working arrangement. The issue of being rewarded with experience and exposure appears far more genuine with 9Rules than with the volume working mentality encouraged with Weblogs Inc.

Also, there are a number of authors in the 9Rules network who are managing non-9Rules blogs and indeed, far from adversely affecting the network, I suspect that Paul Scrivs is pleased that such blogs are around.

Is one approach better than the other? There’s no doubt that what Weblogs Inc is profitable; However, I know which one I would rather join.

9rules, at the end of its post, wonders aloud whether it should invite Accidental Hedonist. Maybe AH can tell us how much 9rules pays. Or does 9rules even involve money?

Tags: 9rules, WIN, contract

This entry was posted by Nick Douglas on Sunday, August 28th, 2005 at 5:12 pm and is filed under 9rules, Jason Calacanis, Paul Scrivens, Weblogs, Inc.. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

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