In an early release of our Tech Tuesday segment, Eric Rice and DL Byron talk with Marqui, a Vancouver, BC-based company that's embarked on an experimental program that pays bloggers to intiate conversation about Marqui's product. (Note: Both Eric and Byron are participating in the paid-blogging program)

We talked with Tara Smith, newly-hired Sr. Marketing Manager, and Patrick Jones, Systems Engineer, both of Marqui.

Topics include the objectives of the blogosphere program; the view from a PR and marketing perspective; lack of blogging functionality in Marqui's product; the future of paid-to-blog programs; the program's duration; responding to the competition; plus-- weighing in on if we the bloggers might want to work on the project in the future (and not the other way around).

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