Dilbert Blog gets the Freakonomics treatment, becomes a footnote in blogging history.
On 11/26/07, Dilbert creator Scott Adams announced that he is going to be blogging less because his Dilbert Blog doesn’t make enough money directly and hurts the sale of his core Dilbert products:
“I found that if I wrote nine highly popular posts, and one that a… [read full post]
The Times is hotlinking images on its website.
The New York Times is hotlinking images on its website. That makes the Times a copyjacker. Copyjacking is a violation of netiquette. Is it a violation of the law? You decide.
Here’s the proof.
Shameful.
See also:… [read full post]
The clue train has left the station, and most publishers aren’t on board.
Worst Practices: Betting Against The Net
Ease-of-copying is a feature, not a bug. Learn to harness that feature, and you’ll have a bright future. Try to fight that feature, and you’ll be fighting gravity.
Since the phrase “the… [read full post]
In which Erik Heels demonstrates that domain names – not diamonds – are forever.
I am an engineer (BSEE from MIT). I have worked with engineers. Engineers share a common feature/bug: they like to be right. And they will go to great lengths to prove that they are right.
I am also a lawyer. I have worked with lawyers. Lawyers, like… [read full post]
By George Orwell.
In George Orwell’s classic book Nineteen Eighty-Four
(sometimes called “1984″), Winston Smith struggles to cope as a member of the Party where Big Brother sees and knows all and where the past is rewritten to create a fictitious present.
“Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.”… [read full post]
Ironically, the Freakonomics blog about economics appears to be having economic difficulty.
Freakonomics Needs Money!
Help save Freakonomics. They need money and can no longer afford to purchase stock photography. At least this is what I conclude based on today’s post, which appears to have borrowed a copyrighted image from another site without attribution or purchase. (I called the vendor… [read full post]
Add photos to your blog to boost readership.
Conventional blogger wisdom says that adding photos to your blog posts is one way to increase readership.
But where can you find photos, graphics, or other images for your website?
Option 1. You could just search Google Images and copy any found image… [read full post]
Art Mellor retires Cool List after 14.5 years.
For the last 14.5 years, my MIT friend Art Mellor has been running the Cool List, an email list of cool and uncool stuff. Art is a skillful editor, and I have never belonged to any mailing list longer. Art also described the web to me before it was invented, imagining an… [read full post]
Copyjacking = copyright + hijacking. Copyjacking + hotlinking + framing = inline linking.
As Jay Parkhill points out, I’ve been having a conversation on Facebook about a new term “copyjacking” in light of the Freakonomics incident.
For those of you not on Facebook yet, here’s the full text of my original post:
“Greetings,
Thanks to… [read full post]
If your website is on this list, then it is likely that you have been a victim of hotlinking by Freakonomics.
When John McCain built his MySpace site by linking to images that were not hosted on his website, it was big news on Digg, TechCrunch, and elsewhere.
For the past two months, popular blog Freakonomics has been… [read full post]
