Certain of our colleagues are bad<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> — a few
\nnotoriously so — about giving credit to other bloggers. I’ll name no names, but I will say that the
\nstingy practice of link-poaching has lately come in for quite a bit of backstage
\ncriticism.<\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
\n<\/P>
\n
Given his broad-brush “name no names” comment, I don’t know whom he means. But since
\nhe mentions “certain of our colleagues,” I have to wonder whether he’s pointing a finger at
\nbloggers here at ArtsJournal.com. If so, I take exception. I don’t poach links and I give
\ncredit where due. If he means bloggers on the Web-at-large, I wish he would say so.
\nArtsJournal.com readers are bound to conclude that he’s looking around his neighborhood
\nand means his colleagues here, even if he didn’t.<\/P>
\n
Postscript:<\/B> Terry cleared the mist from my windshield with his item<\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/EM><\/A>, posted this morning
\n(Monday), for which my thanks. Had I been following Bookslut<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> I suppose I might have deduced whom he
\nmeant. I actually don’t mind link-poaching as much as Terry does, maybe because I’m not part of
\ntheir pissing match. But I regret my intemperate “schoolmarm” characterization, especially since
\nBookslut picked up on it, uncredited<\/FONT><\/EM><\/STRONG><\/A> — eh eh.
\n(Thanks for the links, Terry.)
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