On the heels of Advertlets’ recent boo-boo, Nuffnang introduced Nuffnang Gliterati – allegedly an exclusive program to reward ‘Nuffnangers’ for their loyalty.

Well, if you are a ‘Nuffnangers’ of the Inner Circle, this is definitely the thing for you. If you are a blogger looking into earning some money from your blog traffic or one that has not gotten an ad from Nuffnang ever since you put it up on your blog, then I suggest you take a look at this before making your decision.

Anyway, as I read about this new Nuffnang drive, an analogy came to mind: ‘It’s like someone proposing to a girl to marry him, and in return the girl will have to give up meeting all those other prospective guys. But the problem is, there is already some talk as to how this guy is treating his existing girlfriends to begin with and it’s not all positive.’

A even better one would be this, ‘it’s like those young Manchu girls in Qing China. They are make to believe that to enter the palace and serve the Emperor alone, would fulfil their dreams to a good luxurious life. But they just didn’t realise that few gained the chance to enter his chambers, not to mention the rumors in the palace that the Emperor only graces the chambers of a few of his favorite concubines.’

I couldn’t help but laugh when I thought of them. And so I am putting them down in words as I think that about sums it all.

And if you want to understand what my analogy is all about, just visit a dozen or so blogs at random (not those of Xiasuay, Kenny Seah and those on Innit, of course), and look out for the ‘I serve Nuffnang ads’, and then just see how many of them are actually serving ads at all.

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Word of the Day

oligarchy –noun, plural -chies.

1. a form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique; government by the few.

2. a state or organization so ruled.

3. the persons or class so ruling.