FON fuss may have been blogola

I couldn't figure out the explosion of postings on FON that took over Tech Memeorandum on Monday. Now the WSJ has a story claiming that FON may have primed the blogosphere pump by putting some key tech bloggers on the payroll through an advisory board. Were all of the bloggers who posted on this story on the take? Of course not. Did some members of this advisory board post about FON without disclosing their financial relationship? The WSJ thinks so, and that could be very bad. I smell Forbes and BusinessWeek cover stories at the least. Even worse, this is an election year, and both the Democrats and the Republicans would love to change the subject to someone outside of Congress being paid off.

(via Paul Kedrosky)

Update: I've written an extensive post on just what was said by the bloggers involved. The result of this research has caused me to strikethrough the words "the payroll through" above.