6 Responses to “AP Takes On Bloggers”

1. Traci Best on June 17th, 2008 6:00 pm

   That is SO wrong…on so many levels. It’s NEWS for crying out loud! It isn’t a movie I Tivo’d off of cable!

   Now THIS ( http://youtube.com/watch?v=e-LOtKIIKcg ) is a little more controvercial because it WAS recorded off of C-Span. Interesting none the less!

   I can’t believe they are ALL made in CHINA.

   It makes me want to go running through my house and remove every single one of these stupid bulbs in all my light fixtures and run out to Ace Hardware and purchase old fashioned light bulbs again.

   Traci

2. Chris on June 17th, 2008 9:37 pm

   Hi Traci,

   It’s good to see you stop by! The AP is going to have to back down — they’re already doing so, according to the article. It’s just a sign that the old media still needs to learn how to operate in the new media environment where most of their consumers will be in the coming years. While I subscribe to two local newspapers, I find that I enjoy reading them online more than in their paper format.

   I’m going to have to check out the YouTube video. I’ve replaced a lot of bulbs in the house with the CFLs — especially in the basement, so I’ll have to see what’s up.

3. Dan on June 18th, 2008 8:39 am

   Thanks for keeping us informed! I quote AP all the time on Tyranny Watch. I always provide a link to the article however, and usually I only quote a small portion of it. If AP doesn’t get that, I might have to start publishing my fair use text. Here it is in case anyone wants to use it:

   This site contains some copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic, democracy, scientific, and social justice issues, etc. We believe this constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in (processed as of May 13, 2006) section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond ‘fair use’, you must obtain permission from the copyright owner.

4. Traci Best on June 18th, 2008 8:46 am

   I’m with you on the newspaper thing. I would MUCH rather read the news on-line than deal with a huge newspaper. Never mind the issue of feeling guilty about throwing it away every day or finding a place that you can recycle it. (Recycling is still not the norm in Greenwood. That is so weird after growing up in Bloomington!)

   So how are you liking your new house? I’m SO jealous that you have a BASEMENT! LOL! Oh what I would give to send the kids down to play…or for David to be able to go downstairs to work so he can’t hear all the neighborhood boys playing basketball out front. (He gets SO mad at them!) Not to mention the need for protection from tornados! If we ever are able to get out of this house our next one will have a basement if nothing else.

   Have you watched the video? I had NO idea! We have had these bulbs in our house for…at least a year? I’m just ill about it.

5. Chris on June 18th, 2008 12:37 pm

   Hi Traci,

   The basement at our new place is great — it’s unfinished, so we have a project to keep us busy sometime in the future. (We learned a lot from fixing up the basement in our old house, especially the value of having good lighting in a basement in making the space one that is enjoyable — rather than utilitarian.

   The basement is the size as the upstairs floor plan, so when we put up drywall, I’m going to try to keep it as open as possible so that natural light can still make its way into all areas from the various windows in the basement and because it makes it cool to have a wide open place for the kids to play.

   I haven’t watched the video yet — I’m going to have to check it out.

6. Chris on June 18th, 2008 12:49 pm

   Hi Dan,

   I can see the AP’s point if people were blockquoting an entire article. But, most bloggers take a paragraph or two to make a point and link back to the original.

   It’s beneficial for the site receiving the incoming link — I’ve followed links back to the original story after seeing a quote that piqued my interest.

   What I think will happen is people will just re-write what they’ve read. Instead of grabbing a blockquote, a blogger could be creative write their own content.

   That could be beneficial for bloggers since they wouldn’t have to worry about duplicate content penalties from Google and copyright issues.

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