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27 Dec 2005

Hobbs updated his post with e-mail communication between him and Brittney. He should have quit while he was behind. Some choice excerpts:

I assure you that I have WKRN’s best interest at heart. I was talking to your boss about WKRN engaging the blogosphere long before NIT existed and long before they hired you. I want to see NIT become so much more than it currently is because, well, because I think it currently is so much less than it could be - and as long as it is, it remains vulnerable to being overshadowed by a similar project by another local media outlet that might decide to start one.

Anyone else get the impression here that Bill is pissed because WKRN started a blog and didn’t invite him to the party? Or maybe it’s just pointless dick-swinging, who knows.

Lately you have been doing more cutting and pasting full text of other people’s blog posts and of newspaper articles. The former is rude and the latter is a potential copyright problem unless you post it in order to analyze it line by line. Read up on copyright “fair use” doctrine.

This is the best part. Is he actually criticizing a blogger for excerpting/pasting from other blogs? Now that’s funny. Is this what Bill “blog revolution” Hobbs has been reduced to? Accusations of “bias” and vague threats of copyright violations?

Comments

SayUncle — December 27, 2005 at 20:49 · reply

It’s almost painful to watch. Bill is criticizing a blog for being a, uhm, blog? So far, his only valid criticism seems to be the copy/paste/link issue. And that is disappointing as I find Brittney smart, engaging, and witty. However, her copy/paste/link tendency exposes me to the stupidity of Egalia more often than I would like and Egalia is neither smart, nor engaging, nor witty.

And I know that the purpose of NIT seems to be to get bloggers talking and it does do that.

SayUncle — December 27, 2005 at 20:53 · reply

And I should clarify that the copy/paste/link tendency that I’m referring to is when she does so without comment and not when she links stuff and comments on it.

Dewayne — December 27, 2005 at 23:20 · reply

Wow, who’d a thought that copy/paste/link was such a biggy. Perhaps there is a copyright issue, I for one do not care how my blog is cut and pasted. After all, if the blog isn’t quoted correctly, a person can just go directly to the source and read it in its original context. Anyhow, opinions are like fingerprints, everyone has one and they are all different.

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