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Tony Pierce and Brian Flemming are among 25 bloggers—including Ezra Klein, AmericaBlog's John Aravosis and the gossipists at Jossip and Perez Hilton—who have accepted free airfare, five free nights in a five-star hotel and free transport around Amsterdam from Holland.com and Blogads. Each blogger agreed to post a free ad for Holland.com on their blogs for a month and carry a link for a year, but they are not required to blog about how much they enjoy the payola. (But do any of them actually think they were invited because they are cool?) Here's a site about the freebies that Blogads claims makes it all transparent and above-board, and a commentary on The Netherlands 25 from Josh Trevino at the politics website Spot-On.
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