Prominent Bloggers: Throwing mud and shouting names

Incase you are missing the fun, there's something unusual but interesting happening in the blogosphere.

The story begins like this - When Markus Frind, owner of PlentyofFish.com (a dating website), claimed to make 10K from Google Adsense per day [mp3], he instantly became a celebrity in the blogosphere.

However, another popular blogger - ShoeMoney tried to spoil his icon status by linking to some of the press releases written by Markus and raises a doubt -"Its kind of funny he makes 10k a day yet is not a premium publisher"

Just when the debate between Markus and Shoemoney was beginning to get out of control, another problogger Darren Rowse has joined the Blog War to rescue Markus. Darren points to the Alexa ranking of Plentyoffish and says that with that kind of ranking, it is possible to make the kind of money that Markus is making.

Andrew, who initially interviewed Markus has some more thoughts to share.

It is not surprising that Darren has joined the fight as earlier, he was also accused by Shoemoney for lying in bed with Chitika.

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