Blogging Consultants
Congratulations to John Hawkins over at Right Wing News. He's been hired to consult for the Duncan Hunter presidential campaign. I like the way he set firm limits, incidentally:
Since I am a blogger who's doing some consulting on the side, not a consultant doing blogging to get his name out there, I did attach a condition to my employment that Nathan was willing to go along with:
#1) I agreed to work a maximum of 3 months for the campaign — which should be, in my estimation anyway, plenty of time to give Hunter a huge boost in name recognition and prominence in the blogosphere.
Additionally, while I am working on the campaign, I'm not planning to blog about any of the 2008 Republican contenders on RWN unless a story too big to ignore hits the wires. That's because I don't want to come across like a shill for Duncan if I eviscerate one of his opponents or talk him up. Additionally, if I'm done by May of 2007, at the latest, it's not as if it will be too late to get in on the serious 2008 discussions.
That sounds like a reasonable way to do the job without being accused of being a shill. Well, anymore than is done on a daily basis by the left-wing noise machine.
Blogosphere | Gaius Thursday, 15 February , 2007
