Comments on: Blog Elitism – aka not linking back to the fucking source

By: Alden DoRosario

Alden DoRosario — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:33:08 +0000

J Angelo — I like your idea about the “Via Blogherald” .. In my opinion, that would probably have been the right thing to do.

By: Thoughts on Citing the Original Source at The Blog Herald

Thoughts on Citing the Original Source at The Blog Herald — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 05:13:14 +0000

[...] My friend Ahmed over at Tech Soapbox ranted recently about how he felt bad with Chitika’s citing a post of mine on the Blog Herald about monetizing DIGG traffic instead of his own site, which was actually the source of my article. I had written a post on how to monetize a DUGG site (basic idea: setup a new website, get it to the frontpage, re-sell). A few sites picked it up, including this post by Blog Herald. [...]

By: jangelo

jangelo — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 03:31:01 +0000

No prob with me, Alden. Of course, credit goes to Ahmed for the meat of the analysis. But four links instead of three won’t be bad, either.

By: Jacob

Jacob — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 19:52:41 +0000

I’m sure he won’t be pissed Of course, you could include 4 links instead of 3

By: Ahmed

Ahmed — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 19:51:49 +0000

Sokay me and J are friends

By: Alden DoRosario

Alden DoRosario — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 19:27:21 +0000

Done ..

Dang — now J Angelo will be pissed with me

By: A quick clarification - we vs we - Tech Soapbox

A quick clarification - we vs we - Tech Soapbox — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 17:49:19 +0000

[...] It depends on context as to which ‘we’ I am talking about – eg my comment reply referred to Enthropia as the ‘we’. [...]

By: Ahmed

Ahmed — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 17:40:37 +0000

Hi hi Alden,

I will half-accept your apology. The other half depends on making the change

I see it as a responsibility thing. We receive roughly 250,000 unique visitors a day across our sites. We can shape and flow traffic in many ways. It is our responsibility to ensure that the original author gets his/her due.

By: Alden DoRosario

Alden DoRosario — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 17:29:09 +0000

Ahmed, my sincere apologies for this. You are completely right about this lapse.

I spent 95% of my time writing the analysis part. The last section was more of “Ok now, let me yield to the experts” (wherein I linked to Neil Patel, Problogger and the BlogHerald article. The BlogHerald article — cause it came up No. 1 on a Google search for “monetizing digg traffic” by the way.