Comments on: What’s So Difficult About a Hat Tip? http://www.blogpi.net/whats-so-difficult-about-a-hat-tip Putting the blogosphere under a magnifying glass Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:11:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Jonathan Rick http://www.blogpi.net/whats-so-difficult-about-a-hat-tip#comment-136774 Jonathan Rick Fri, 23 May 2008 14:21:58 +0000 http://www.blogpi.net/whats-so-difficult-about-a-hat-tip#comment-136774 <p>Another example, from the Boy Genius Report, regarding the forthcoming BlackBerry 9000 (http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2008/04/25/cleaning-up-those-blackberry-rumors/):</p> <p>So, why exactly am I bitching? BG, why so agitated? Well, I work hard to deliver all the information I do to our readers and anyone who finds it interesting. Do I care about not getting links? Negatory. Do I care that my exclusive information was republished without my permission into a "new" story a month later? Yes. What if Fortune had their own sources and simply posted what they were told? Then they’re not doing a very good job. Are they that starved for stories that they’re publishing an article a month after it was first broken? That would be like CNN running Election Day coverage a month after MSNBC. Glad I don’t work there…</p> Another example, from the Boy Genius Report, regarding the forthcoming BlackBerry 9000 (http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2008/04/25/cleaning-up-those-blackberry-rumors/):

So, why exactly am I bitching? BG, why so agitated? Well, I work hard to deliver all the information I do to our readers and anyone who finds it interesting. Do I care about not getting links? Negatory. Do I care that my exclusive information was republished without my permission into a “new” story a month later? Yes. What if Fortune had their own sources and simply posted what they were told? Then they’re not doing a very good job. Are they that starved for stories that they’re publishing an article a month after it was first broken? That would be like CNN running Election Day coverage a month after MSNBC. Glad I don’t work there…

]]> By: Simon Owens http://www.blogpi.net/whats-so-difficult-about-a-hat-tip#comment-136685 Simon Owens Wed, 21 May 2008 17:57:08 +0000 http://www.blogpi.net/whats-so-difficult-about-a-hat-tip#comment-136685 <p>This happened to me at least once. I interviewed a journalism professor at length about a study he had conducted about journalism burnout and published an article about the study at bloggasm. I sent a note to the trade magazine Editor and Publisher to let them know about my article, and they in turn just ripped off all the information I provided without mentioning my name once.</p> <p>So what did I do? I posted the editor's email address on my blog and encouraged my readers to email him. 30 minutes later the story had been updated and gave proper credit to me. The editor also sent me a personal apology.</p> This happened to me at least once. I interviewed a journalism professor at length about a study he had conducted about journalism burnout and published an article about the study at bloggasm. I sent a note to the trade magazine Editor and Publisher to let them know about my article, and they in turn just ripped off all the information I provided without mentioning my name once.

So what did I do? I posted the editor’s email address on my blog and encouraged my readers to email him. 30 minutes later the story had been updated and gave proper credit to me. The editor also sent me a personal apology.

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