There has been a lot of hype lately about how paid reviews need to be disclosed, if not, banished from the face of the web all together. I have been pondering the moral implications of this new form of blogging for quite some time now. I want to know what you all think about paid reviews and what you think are the differences between paid reviews and working directly for a blog.

Paid Reviews vs. Working for a Blog

When you get hired to a blog as a writer you are given topics …

We all know Bose makes great headphones and everybody swears by Sennheiser’s lineup, but how many of us can actually swear by Grado Lab’s headphone series? Grado sounds more like the cave at the playboy mansion than a finely tuned pair of speakers that attaches to our head! Before I go into why the Grado line excels past all the others in this category I want to give you a example.

Lets say I am running a large corporation that produces, designs and sells over 100 different products, related …

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A Lost Art
First of all, film photography is becoming a lost art. To further that trend, manual printing is being replaced with digital cameras, printing stores, and photoshop. However, the more commercialized photography becomes, the more we compromise manipulation in the final product. For instance, most point and shoot digital cameras are pre-programmed to place everything in a frame into focus.

What if you wanted to have a blurry background with only one object in focus? You would have to manually go into the camera’s menu and change the depth of field, and by the time you were done, the object …

Owning your own business or being an independent free lance worker is a nice way to make money. You can decide your own schedule, do whatever you want, and charge whatever rate for your labor. A lot of people wish to have this luxury, but it takes a certain fearlessness to dive into being responsible for keeping yourself employed. Another deterrent to employing yourself is taxes.

Before you take your income and use it to feed yourself, or pay for gas, or anything, you have to turn 30 percent of it over to the government. This means, it doesn’t matter if …