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Microsoft has been giving bloggers free laptops, no strings attached, loaded with Vista, the new version of Windows, hoping for some good buzz. Via [livejournal.com profile] whumpdotcom, I see that Joel Spolsky isn’t happy:

This is the most frustrating thing about the practice of giving bloggers free stuff: it pisses in the well, reducing the credibility of all blogs.

Reducing the what?

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Date: 2006-12-30 04:48 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Yeah, you know, the way the credibility of sports writers went all to hell when the teams started feeding them free lobster and champagne. Same kind of credibility, too.

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