Ghost Writers For Hire - Good Or Bad?
According to we make money not art a company called Memo Technique is offering blog ghost writers. I've seen services like this before, but mainly from freelance writers.
Blog ghost writing is controversial. I have said that I believe it could work, but for example Amy Gahran strongly disagrees.
I wrote a comment to Amy's post, and it summarizes my view:
When it comes to the ghostwriting part I actually intended to be a bit provocative - I agree that in general it will be a bad idea (so I fully understand your point of view) but I'm not sure that we can write it off totally just yet. I do some ghostwriting for other purposes than blogs, and when I wrote the post I had one special CEO in mind. Once a month I write 40-50 seconds for him to say in his company's internal radio programme, and having done that for some time nowadays I barely have to talk to him to get it right. I know what he thinks, when he wants to be diplomatic, when he wants to be controversial, how he says things etc etc. In a relationship like that maybe ghostwriting a blog would work. In exceptional cases, that is.