Re:When a newspaper “rips off” your blog, then taunts you ab...
by pbhjpbhj on Wednesday March 30, 2011 @03:25PM
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>"but are too proud to admit they got a fact from a blogger."
Too proud? Where do you get that from.
As I see it someone looked at the blog post, clicked through to the petitelapgiraffe.com site and wrote about that site.
If they should write:
Source: petitelapgiraffe.com
Referred from: iandennismiller.com
Should they also write who they were referred to iandennismiller.com from, who referred them there, etc., etc..
If they saw the story elsewhere first and then scouted around to see what people were writing about it, looking for an angle, then do they still need to write a "referred by" line? If they looked over someones shoulder on the metro and saw the original site do they have to cite that?
Too proud? Where do you get that from.
As I see it someone looked at the blog post, clicked through to the petitelapgiraffe.com site and wrote about that site.
If they should write:
Source: petitelapgiraffe.com Referred from: iandennismiller.com
Should they also write who they were referred to iandennismiller.com from, who referred them there, etc., etc..
If they saw the story elsewhere first and then scouted around to see what people were writing about it, looking for an angle, then do they still need to write a "referred by" line? If they looked over someones shoulder on the metro and saw the original site do they have to cite that?
Just seems a bit silly.