I previously wrote about some interesting .ie domains. Now SiliconRepublic.com (siliconrepublic publishing ltd is a for profit party) have written the same thing in an incorrectly named article “Allegations of cybersquatting on .ie domain” (it should be domain the .ie domain extension) They credit Brian Greene (a nice person) for having “brought to the attention of siliconrepublic.com in recent weeks” the domains “police.ie, british.ie, look.ie…” which were registered by Gabor Varga and Jozsef Petho.
Brian Greene only discovered bebo.ie, and says on his blog that
ambrand dot com found
* police.ie
* british.ie
* look.ie
* ipod.ie
* adidas.ie
* nike.ie
On SiliconRepublic’s contributors page it says that author of the article John Kennedy (who writes well like Bernie Goldbach viz X said, Y said, Z then said) specialises in “…scandal mongering…” so perhaps next time I write such a post I should send him an email so that he doesn’t quote a secondary source.
Now It’s not my intention to criticise any party in this instance, I’m trying to illustrate that if a blog would like more readers then it should let the fourth estate know about any posts before other bloggers are credited, on a mass scale that would be spamming, but if a blogger can network successfully with the estate, in social circles for example, then he/she could enjoy some publicity. This is not new by any means, for years the very Modus Operandi of Public Realtions Officers has been to do just that, so perhaps the offline world has some tricks to teach the blogger.
fair attribution! I think you have a point, I made less discoveries than you, and I quoted / attributed and linked to you (yes I am a nice guy) so the news paper boys might learn that they should attribute, conn of imeall & podcast fame writing in Lá always links to the source of a meme (in paper boy speak, a scoop)
btw, john kennedy is a nice guy. its the NUJ that need to learn a thing or two, Mr. google is the #1 source of anything in a news room, fleet street is on fire, d’Olier street is flooded, lets check google news to be sure, then publish….
if its worth anything bebo posts on my blog give double traffic from search engines…. especially bebo.ie terms