Today the Baltimore Sun syndicated in its entirety my post from Sunday, as part of its feature: "Ravens bloggers are delighted to keep their purple prose flowing*"
In the magical world of journalistic integrity, we call this copyright infringement. In the magical world of football fans who don't understand big words like "copyright" and "infringement," we call this stealing. In the magical world of the blogosphere, where some of us understand SEO and where we use fancy technology like hyperlinks and abstracts and saying thank you or maybe not even stealing in the first place, we call this bush league.
Not all bloggers trip over themselves at the first sign of MSM affection.
What did the rest of the article say? I don't know. I didn't read it. It was about blogs. I don't read blogs. They're full of trash [dripping contempt and/or sarcasm, exit stage left].
Side note: Last night I was the victim of another, more frustrating theft, one involving two thugs and my iPhone. I broke my finger punching one of said thugs in the face, which means I can't type with both hands right now. So if I'm M.I.A. for a minute, now you know why.
Lesson: If I catch you stealing from me, I will punch you in the face.
Now it's off to find one of those free medical clinics in San Francisco. This mangled finger of mine feels like Tony Romo's career in December. The joys of being without health insurance.
*Hyperlinking is easy. Here I made it work using only my left hand.
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Ouch. Way to call me out.
How did I call you out? You know I got nothing but love for the Nest!
"Not all bloggers trip over themselves at the first sign of MSM affection."
-felt like a jab (not unlike the one you gave that iphone thief.)
You could have at least said how sexy I look. Ha ha.
I'm sorry you read it that way, Mr. Minder -- that was not my intention. My only intention was to remind The Sun that it's clueless with regard to blogs. Or, more likely, not clueless but instead greedy and short-sighted. By publishing your content, both parties get penalized by search engines for publishing duplicate content. But it hurts bloggers more than large sites. They get free content, and the bloggers don't even get a link out of the deal. They know this. It's no secret.
Whatever, their industry is dying. Karma is a bitch. So is innovation.
I actually didn't even notice the photo until just now. You look very handsome, just like The Joe Flacco Show but with multiple eyebrows.
haha, Ok man, thanks for the clarification.
My GF will be thrilled to hear that you said I looked like a di-browed Flacco. Sometimes she makes me wear nothing but his jersey and a costume unibrow around the house.
If it makes you feel any better, there are hyperlinks on the article now.
No word on if they found your iPhone.
Meh. They have no transparent policy. They have no understanding of new media. All they have is (somewhat unique) access and a dying print property. Sounds like fun. Their move the other day reeks of desperation and incompetence and also ignorance.
most depressing conversation ever. Ravens Rock!
Uh, it's a conversation about the landscape of new media. How is that depressing exactly? It's a sterile and unemotional topic. Do you have feelings? Are you a robot? OMG?! Bill Belichick? Is that you?!!
That conversation sucked the life out of me thus leaving me emotionally drained and depressed. It took something fun like bloggin about the ravens and receiving recognition. Into something far too serious for me.
40 MINUTES!!!!
I don't consider it "fun" when people steal from me or other bloggers, Jill. Maybe that's just me, I don't know. Also, you missed the point about me not caring about recognition, and it was not about recognition anyway. It was about SEO and the Sun stealing traffic from Ravens fans. Please consider doing some homework on SEO and the blogosphere and Google page rank and dupe content before you start complaining about what I write on my blog.
And for what it's worth, I've had other people email me about the same thread, curious and wanting to know more. So not everyone is as intellectually vapid as your recent POV, IMO.
Great win today. Two more to go.
KOW.
I understand where you're coming from.
It's one of the major problems with the internet and the ease of the dreaded "cut & paste".
My site has been mentioned twice this season in the Sun but my name has never been mentioned once.
I do look at the free publicity as a plus though. I have quite a few more hits from people who said they checked me out as a result of the article.
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