Comments on: CJR: Poynter's 'Incomplete Attribution' Problem Goes Beyond Romenesko http://paidcontent.org/2011/11/12/419-cjr-poynters-incomplete-attribution-problem-goes-farther-than-romenesko/ The economics of digital content Sun, 19 May 2013 07:03:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: fragtown http://paidcontent.org/2011/11/12/419-cjr-poynters-incomplete-attribution-problem-goes-farther-than-romenesko/#comment-86114 Sun, 13 Nov 2011 13:29:49 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2011/11/12/419-cjr-poynters-incomplete-attribution-problem-goes-farther-than-romenesko/#comment-86114 Oh, it goes deeper that just Poynter. I watch sites like BoingBoing build huge audiences with techniques that would get them thrown out of school for plagiarism. They spend five seconds writing two seconds of introduction for a big, fat blockquote. They knock off their posts in ten minutes. Anyone can have a great blog filled with great pictures if you plagiarize. 

]]> By: Muckety http://paidcontent.org/2011/11/12/419-cjr-poynters-incomplete-attribution-problem-goes-farther-than-romenesko/#comment-86113 Sat, 12 Nov 2011 18:12:45 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2011/11/12/419-cjr-poynters-incomplete-attribution-problem-goes-farther-than-romenesko/#comment-86113 Google’s role in this could be pretty central, and from what I’ve read, so far largely unaddressed.

The supreme driver of traffic favors more text but penalizes sites for over-aggregating, particularly if the text has appeared elsewhere first. Boundaries are ever-changing, and aggregators wandering into this DMZ can be decimated.

Wonder what sort of discussions at Poynter preceded the debut of “Romenesko+”

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