The entire digital world is copy and paste ... If you want to post or write online ... pay the piper (I don't think people understand that any old rules and ideas are dead as dead) We are all journalists and anyone attempting to become a acclaimed writer ... forget it as you can be ruined in a blink of an eye. I have done a few bits on this in the past to help a friend's son at Uni and They are having to rethink the whole journalism thing... The reason is simple .. quantity of opinion and ease of reply. Twitter has changed everything as you have only 140 characters to get your message across and people just want read and go ... that isn't going to be de-invented ever as its tapped straight into how we as human what the data to flow. Professional website generation is on the fall, as anyone can build a blog site in Drupal or Wordpress if they even be bothered! A forum website like this can be built very easily. The future will be little communities like ours here ... Our board attracts a fair amount of reader from all other clubs I am sure ... so what makes the difference? The posters You can be sure that this board is one of the first port of calls that most Journo's look and gauge everything QPR. Did you know also that more and more people are finding their entertainment online ... no wonder people want to try and control it they have a hooked audience so copy and paste anyway lads rob everything you can while you can. We want QPR entertainment and we want it now!!! and pretty sure we don't care where it comes from. Anyone posting for an ego or money or anything else ... wake uphttp://www.not606.com/forumdisplay.php/51-Queens-Park-Rangers
Apologies for being thick, but if a piece is copied and pasted here and the author is credited, perhaps with a link to where his original piece (and other pieces) can be found... Isn't that enough? Why is it important that the reader goes to the original blog? Is it just a vanity thing, or is there advertising revenue at stake, or what is it? Like I said, sorry for being thick, but I genuinely don't understand what the issue is if the author is credited.
Dont really understand why there is a poll for this? Nothing personal North, just really couldnt care less if its copy & paste or a link. I guess it must be driven by vanity, money or something else.?
There is an obvious flaw in your short sighted comment Dave. If the world is now solely copy and paste where do you think your QPR entertainment is going to come from? Perhaps you believe that there is already enough material in existence and everyone will be content with copying and paste the same text over and over again? Perhaps you believe that no new material has an validity? Maybe you are content with the anodyne output from the official website and national papers? If not then what do you propose that people will be copying and pasting? There are some great bloggers out there, they should be encouraged not abused. If you enjoy their work give them something back. Are you really content with 140 characters a threads wondering where Swords is or do you want something to get your teeth stuck into? If all you aspire to in this world Dave is a load of retweets then you and I haven’t got much in the way of common ground. I’ve made no bones about this on the previous thread. I’m shallow enough to enjoy seeing the hits on my blog stack up; yes it is a form of vanity if you like. As just one example, I had over 200 hits from a Cardiff City message board on an article I wrote about Tommy Smith when he left us, if they had just copied and pasted the whole piece I wouldn't have ever known. For professional sites such as the excellent West London Sport the issue is about advertising revenues. If their hits drop off they will lose their advertising and cease to exist. I’m not concerned what anyone does with articles from the online presence of any of the nationals, the few hits that they would get from a forum like ours is almost irrelevant to them, but for QPR orientated sites and individual bloggers in general please show some respect. As Northolt so succinctly says, it is the right thing to do. Is clicking on a link really that much of a price to pay to ensure the continuity of new material?
if I cant copy and paste I might as well end it now do you want that on your conscience the bloggers could of course post a link themselves so they get the hits
Ah, it is a vanity thing, then. How did we ever manage in the time before "QPR entertainment" was available on't 'net? If I can cast my mind back that far it was: Shoot magazine, Match Weekly, Football Weekly News, Football Focus, MotD, The Big Match, Saint & Greavsie, Sportsnight, the sports slots at the end of the news bulletins and the back pages of the daily press. Oh, and from simply talking and listening (using these things called a mouth and a pair of ears) to other footie mad chums. It was all timely enough in them thar days, eh? Whenever Smiffy told me some soccer titbit, I used to hot-tail it over to Strangely Brown on my Raleigh Chopper and tell him that Smiffy had a hot piece of footie news. "What is it?" Strangely Brown would ask me eagerly. "I'm not allowed to say", I would reply,"but here's his telephone number and his home address. Best ask him yourself. I think he'd be a bit upset if I simply told you. But he'd get a real kick if half of Bash Street were to tap on his door for the news". "Isn't it enough that you've given him a namecheck?" Brown would quiz. "No", I would sigh,"you've got to go and give him a rub personally."
Can I suggest a compromise? Placing the title and first sentence (or two) of the article here followed by ...read the fully story here For example - From Rollers blog (Hope you don't mind Roller) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Terry Venables – My First Hero Many of my earliest memories of football revolve around watching The Big Match on Sunday lunchtimes. As a football mad schoolboy, not even 10 years old, I would watch wide eyed, thoroughly absorbed in the matches but with no firm allegiance, my fidelity as fleeting as that of an alley cat. Then one Sunday afternoon everything changed, I experienced my “Road to Damascus” moment and the blinding light was provided by Terry Venables. I can’t tell you who we were playing, I can’t remember the final score, but I can say with absolute assurance that Gerry Francis scored. Read the full story here
Good idea..........by the way.....have I mentioned............................................................
