Australian Financial Review and Archaic Constructs
Well, I really wanted to showoff to you just a snippet of an article from the Australian Financial Review today (written by Renai LeMay), where I am quoted on the MySpace vs Facebook social networking debate. But when I try to copy and paste, this is what I get: y p c A s r…
Well, I really wanted to showoff to you just a snippet of an article from the Australian Financial Review today (written by Renai LeMay), where I am quoted on the MySpace vs Facebook social networking debate. But when I try to copy and paste, this is what I get:
y p c A s r l a a y s e d y o c d o e e d t c a m o e u t a i ‘s o t o u a s c a n t o k n w b i e o l w n t e e e s o s r e d t s o i g a e o k a s o e t e e d.
It’s to make sure you HAVE to go to the AFR.com site to read the articles and makes sure us naughty bloggers don’t get our grubby little hands on them.
Me, nicking my own words back off AFR site. As John Gilmore said (and is oft-quoted)
“The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.”
Now far be it from me to incite a revolution but can’t one of my clever clogs readers create a proxy site that translates the text back again? Like Babelfish or Google Translate?
I think the AFR’s issue is about something called – and forgive me, my grasp of Ancient History and Archaic Languages is not good – intellectualio propertium. Or something similar from the Medieval period. Heh.
Echo: Renai … Renai … leave the dark side and come to the light… the light … the light
Darnit, I was so happy to be in the AFR but they keep breaking my little blogging heart. Remember Australian Media: Just STOP it? *sniffles* If bloggers can’t quote a snippet, they won’t blog therefore they won’t link, therefore no Google Juice. It just doesn’t work the way you think it does, Mainstream Media! This is not directed at Renai unless he personally set the strategy for the AFR site. Which I doubt, cos he seemed really quite reasonable for an ink-stained reprobate journo.
EDIT: I can’t believe I missed this: Gary Barber pointed out that encrypting the text is not accessibility-friendly. So did the Twitterati – @ericsheid et al. They are chatting up a storm about court cases and such. Methinks we will hear more about this soon…
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Please consider the Children…
and the people using mobile devices and screen readers.. This is a accessibility case just waiting to happen!
OH.MY.GOD. I hadn’t even considered that. Someone slap me!
Keep using the AFR brand without permission until they change their policy!
Hi Lauren,
Often stories from the print version of the AFR end up online at the Fin’s ‘sister’ site for MIS magazine.
(http://www.misaustralia.com/)
I assume that’s so they can keep their print ‘exclusivity’ on stories in the print edition of the ARF while still putting the copy online. Their web strategy isn’t transparent to me at this time. 🙂
Might not help with the particular story you mentioned, but it’s an interesting data point nonetheless
Actually within 20 mins of my whinging, a TwitFriend put up a deobfuscator – I can put in any AFR URL now and get a copyable transcript 🙂
… bless his little copyright thievin’ socks 🙂
Don’t underestimate the Google Juice – it’s powerful stuff! Slightly off-topic but a good example; I recently got screwed on a warranty claim for $1,200 in car repairs because the particularly component was not specifically included in the contract (clearly not, because to explicitly list everything would be absurd). So I posted the rejection letter on flickr.
Within 24 hours I was (and still am) the leading result on Google for a search of the warranty company’s name.
But obviously we’d prefer to be directing the Google Juice for good – so don’t inhibit us! You can only benefit!