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The AP Must Want Fewer Readers
18 June 2008
Posted by Zach Hofer-Shall
If there's one main lesson that companies of all sizes need to learn about the evolving internet, it's that you should never ever underestimate the power of angry bloggers. Dell learned this lesson the hard way a few years back, but has rebounding miraculously by engaging with the angry bloggers.
Well now bloggers have found a new enemy in none other than The Associated Press. Last week The AP sent notice to the Drudge Retort, a social news forum where any user can submit content, to remove multiple pages due to a surprisingly strict take on quotations. The letters from The AP pushed for the removal of some items with as few as 39 words of its material quoted.
The massive oversight by The AP is that sites like the Drudge Retort actually drive traffic to the original content. It comes as little surprise that this upset bloggers immensely and as quickly as the story broke, TechCrunch took a firm stance by banning any AP content from the site. TechCrunch's Mike Arrington wrote, "here's our new policy on A.P. 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."
The AP recently followed up with a revised plan, but I'm afraid to link or quote them, so you'll need to find the rest of this story on your own.
Well now bloggers have found a new enemy in none other than The Associated Press. Last week The AP sent notice to the Drudge Retort, a social news forum where any user can submit content, to remove multiple pages due to a surprisingly strict take on quotations. The letters from The AP pushed for the removal of some items with as few as 39 words of its material quoted.
The massive oversight by The AP is that sites like the Drudge Retort actually drive traffic to the original content. It comes as little surprise that this upset bloggers immensely and as quickly as the story broke, TechCrunch took a firm stance by banning any AP content from the site. TechCrunch's Mike Arrington wrote, "here's our new policy on A.P. 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."
The AP recently followed up with a revised plan, but I'm afraid to link or quote them, so you'll need to find the rest of this story on your own.
Labels: associate press, blog, copyright
