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Thread ID: 90832	2008-06-17 17:09:00	It's An Air-Ball For The AP....	SurferJoe46 (51)	PC World Chat

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679499	2008-06-17 17:09:00	WARNING: THE FOLLOWING POST IS MORE THAN 30 WORDS . With a Hail Mary pass on the field, the Associated Press (AP) has launched a very stupid and counterproductive (and alienating) attack on bloggers, referrers and others who might like to link a story that they find and want to honestly disseminate to friends and associates . Here's a blurb: "AP seems to be aware of the minefield it's choosing to walk through . "We are not trying to sue bloggers," Kennedy said . "That would be the rough equivalent of suing grandma and the kids for stealing music," and who would be stupid enough to try that?" "We don't want to cast a pall over the blogosphere by being heavy-handed, so we have to figure out a better and more positive way to do this," said Jim Kennedy, vice president and strategy director . " ( . nytimes . com/2008/06/16/business/media/16ap . html" target="_blank">www . nytimes . com) Michael Arrington explained the TechCrunch take ( . techcrunch . com/2008/06/16/heres-our-new-policy-on-ap-stories-theyre-banned/" target="_blank">www . techcrunch . com): "Here's our new policy on AP stories: they don't exist . We don't see them, we don't quote them, we don't link to them . They're banned until they abandon this new strategy, and I encourage others to do the same until they back down from these ridiculous attempts to stop the spread of information around the Internet . " This, of course, will have about the same impact as those periodic calls for a gas boycott, but still, it's a message AP really needs to get its head around as it works on the next write-through . " Seems to me that ANY clickovers and referrals to a story would be something A/P WANTS . . . right!?!? Aren't they in the business of presenting of a good profile and spreading their writers to a very broad and diffuse readership? Reposting full text of copyright material is a Bad Thing . Posting a link to copyright material and enough of an excerpt to encourage a click-through is a Good Thing . It drives traffic, raises visibility and weaves the source material into an ongoing conversation . Getting linked is what you want to happen to your content . MY subscription source is Good Morning Silicon Valley ( . siliconvalley . com/gmsv/" target="_blank">blogs . siliconvalley . com): June 16th, 2008	SurferJoe46 (51)
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