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3 years ago
in OhGizmo! » Archive » Hydrofoil Water Scooter on OhGizmo!
Ponce, (if I may call you that, its meant endearingly I assure you) this is why I read your blog, you answer comments! Thank you for clarifying your situation with engadget, I understand your point. I agree this isn't exactly like engadget, I was referring to blog
ethics in general. You know, at first I didn't want to believe that engadget was acting so improperly, but after reading the digg story and your story, I think its all true. What a shame, for you AND for them. I held them in such high regard and it made me sad to see that there was an ugly side to blogs that I had no idea about. Most of my thinking on blog ethics has been spurred by what I had read on digg and your site regarding engadget, so I referenced that as an example of things that I have started to notice after the engadget fallout. This got me noticing how links work and I started paying attention to this a little bit more dilligently in my blog reading hour at work (I always see similar stories / topics covered in different places. I've noticed great crediting practice on your site. And horrible practices on uncrate, which actually used to be a favorite blog. I did a quick and simple technorati search and saw that 7 of the stories on his homepage today have been already done on other sites recently (within days) and saw
only one [via] thing. I agree with you completely that blogs shouldn't have to "follow the link chain, down the rabbit hole". But I think its the job of the internet community to uncover when people are doing things wrong. (kudos to the digg community btw for uncovering the engadget thing). Anyways, keep up the good work, just wanted to let you guys know. There are other sites that I have been noticing this with too, but have only been tracking it for a couple weeks, and uncrate seems like the major violator.
ethics in general. You know, at first I didn't want to believe that engadget was acting so improperly, but after reading the digg story and your story, I think its all true. What a shame, for you AND for them. I held them in such high regard and it made me sad to see that there was an ugly side to blogs that I had no idea about. Most of my thinking on blog ethics has been spurred by what I had read on digg and your site regarding engadget, so I referenced that as an example of things that I have started to notice after the engadget fallout. This got me noticing how links work and I started paying attention to this a little bit more dilligently in my blog reading hour at work (I always see similar stories / topics covered in different places. I've noticed great crediting practice on your site. And horrible practices on uncrate, which actually used to be a favorite blog. I did a quick and simple technorati search and saw that 7 of the stories on his homepage today have been already done on other sites recently (within days) and saw
only one [via] thing. I agree with you completely that blogs shouldn't have to "follow the link chain, down the rabbit hole". But I think its the job of the internet community to uncover when people are doing things wrong. (kudos to the digg community btw for uncovering the engadget thing). Anyways, keep up the good work, just wanted to let you guys know. There are other sites that I have been noticing this with too, but have only been tracking it for a couple weeks, and uncrate seems like the major violator.
3 years ago
in OhGizmo! » Archive » Hydrofoil Water Scooter on OhGizmo!
And if Uncredit (ahem), I mean Uncrate didn't steal it from Coolest Gadgets, then its obvious he stole it from Book of Joe-
http://www.bookofjoe.com/2006/02/aquaskipper_se...
Ponce, do you read these comments? It seems you should be more dilligent in giving the proper credit, given you know how it feels with the whole engadget guys stealing stories from you. It also seems hypocritical for you to link to uncrate, when uncrate never give credit to the all the stories they steal from the blogosphere.
http://www.bookofjoe.com/2006/02/aquaskipper_se...
Ponce, do you read these comments? It seems you should be more dilligent in giving the proper credit, given you know how it feels with the whole engadget guys stealing stories from you. It also seems hypocritical for you to link to uncrate, when uncrate never give credit to the all the stories they steal from the blogosphere.
3 years ago
in OhGizmo! » Archive » Hydrofoil Water Scooter on OhGizmo!
Hey Bruce, your via link is all wrong. It says "ask men" but it goes to uncrate? Uncrate should be called "Uncredit", they steal the majority of their stories from other blogs, including this one from Coolest Gadgets. http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20060327/wata-po...
In the interests of fairness and justice, the link should go to Coolest Gadgets, not the thieves at Uncredit.
In the interests of fairness and justice, the link should go to Coolest Gadgets, not the thieves at Uncredit.
