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  • 3rd Nov, 2006 at 11:03 AM
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Bizarrely, the first paragraph of my most recent rant about audio quality has appeared on the letters page of the Technology Guardian.

Obviously a blog track-back as I didn't send it to them or anything.

But hey - that makes me a tech blogger... ho hum.

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[info]ockhams_shotgun wrote:
3rd Nov, 2006 13:09 (UTC)
... their eyes are everywhere! O.O
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[info]0ct0pus wrote:
3rd Nov, 2006 13:51 (UTC)
The moral of the story is, don't ever link to a Guardian blog in one of your posts. Unless you all want to post rude things about Jack Schofield and then link to his blog. But that would be very childish and I couldn't possibly recommend that you did this...
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[info]ockhams_shotgun wrote:
3rd Nov, 2006 13:55 (UTC)
Mmmm... I'm going to need to improve my tech-awareness levels around about here. How does this tracking blogs that have linked to you work? Educate me!
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[info]0ct0pus wrote:
3rd Nov, 2006 14:00 (UTC)
Basically, the Guardian blog people have written a special programme a little like a search engine which finds pages that have links to their page.

You can do this yourself by entering "link:http://www.thepageyouareinterestedin.example" into google. But proper link trackling software will do this automatically.

They then read what people have been saying about them. And print it. Without asking their permission...
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(Anonymous) wrote:
6th Nov, 2006 12:17 (UTC)
we don't need your permission
The printing of the extract falls under 'fair use' (see copyright law 1988 et al).

And how exactly would one find your email address amidst the sprawl that is LJ's system to ask your permission?

Technorati does a better job. And hey, we even got a response from a reader to your comments. Tune in on Thursday..

Charles Arthur, editor, Technology
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[info]0ct0pus wrote:
14th Nov, 2006 16:04 (UTC)
Re: we don't need your permission
Indeed. Would be very grateful if you took representative quotes rather than the first three lines.

And I find "user info" (the little person shaped blob next to a name) provides a very good way to find an e-mail address.

Or you could have just left a comment.
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[info]cybermule wrote:
3rd Nov, 2006 13:47 (UTC)
Gayer ;P
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[info]0ct0pus wrote:
3rd Nov, 2006 13:50 (UTC)
Peh.
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