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- by Shagate June 17, 2008 7:11 AM PDT
- I can't tell you how many times I've read the same article on multiple sites, clearly violating the author's copyright. However, I can also say that in some cases authors also fail to recognize the clear advantages of summaries and "soundbites". Bloggers tend to quickly regurgitate interesting infromation for the masses, acting as a filter for their clique of readers, but they still need a good active tease for their readers to click through on the story.
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(3 Comments)Even this article is guilty of not really providing a good enticing summary paragraph, focusing on the bland "The Associated Press has brought to the foreground the issue of 'fair use' related to taking snippets from articles, according to an article in The New York Times." Since this author is a "blogger" and not a journalist (yeah), think if you would want to spend a fifteen minutes to a half hour thinking of a good tease for each story you post (which in some sites is 20-30 stories a day).
I'm not a jounalist/writer and I can even understand this pain point. I saw it all the time on Slashdot. A good tease would immediately get posted as the body, but a bad one would cause the whole article to get posted, to get the point across quickly (from the presenter's point of view).