Required Reading: How to Credit Blogs
There have been a number of incidents in recent memory where main stream media outlets take ideas from bloggers and then pass them off as their own. In the Philly sports world, the great Bugs and Cranks came up with a brilliant take on Ryan Howard's awkward stretch of at bats. Those findings were then analyzed even further -- quite well, I might add -- by ESPN's Jayson Stark. Stark never mentions where he got the idea in his posting.
This type of stuff happens all the time. Us bloggers are used to it, but it is still irksome. It has happened to us here at The 700 Level on many occasions. Whether it be a radio host on 610 WIP talking about something he read "on an Internet site" or Comcast running with a story originally found here, MSM outlets don't get the new way of doing things. Frank Fitzpatrick, an elder statesman at the Inquirer, wrote an article "critiquing" a blog post I wrote last football season. He didn't like my style, which is fine. I don't like his. What really bothered me was the fact that he didn't once mention the name of the website on which he read the piece let alone throw a link our way. (We realize he probably doesn't know how to link.)
Anyway, I'm talking about this because the FanHouse's own Matt Ufford wrote a fabulous post titled "How to Give Blogs Credit: A Handy Guide for the Mainstream Media." It's required reading for any fan of sports and the Internet. Ufford nailed this one. Nicely done.
>>How to Give Blogs Credit: A Handy Guide for the Mainstream Media [FanHouse]
>>Writer Just Your Average Philly Columnist [The 700 Level]
Enrico in pajamas..... HOT.
Posted by: Miss Gossip | Sunday, July 08, 2007 at 11:37 PM
Maybe you should become an intellectual property attorney to stick up for all the bloggers in America.
Posted by: kcamp | Monday, July 09, 2007 at 12:03 AM
LOL! Link FTW!!!
Posted by: phil | Monday, July 09, 2007 at 02:35 AM
It's funny (not "ha ha" funny, mind you) that major networks raise a massive stink when a blog fails to credit one of their web sites with a breaking story but feel little compulsion to return the favor.
Posted by: Chamomiles Davis | Monday, July 09, 2007 at 09:56 AM
Frank Fitzpatrick is a hack no matter what or who he is talking about.
Posted by: Greg | Monday, July 09, 2007 at 11:08 AM
Is it me, or when you read Frank Fitzpatrick, does it seem like he doesn't really like sports at all. Like a jock must have stolen his lunch money or something. Meanwhile, there are 10s of 1000s of writers that gladly do what he does for free today.
Posted by: johndewar | Monday, July 09, 2007 at 12:00 PM
Greg,
I hear you. I've written a word or two about his hackery in the past.
Posted by: Chamomiles Davis | Monday, July 09, 2007 at 12:06 PM