How to Give Blogs Credit: A Handy Guide for the Mainstream Media

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FanHouse: How to Credit Blogs
Published 7/9/2007 by Enrico at The700Level.com - Philly Sports & Minutiae
... Anyway, I'm talking about this because the FanHouse's own Matt Ufford wrote a fabulous post titled "How to Give Blogs Credit: A Handy Guide for the Mainstream Media."  It's required reading for any fan of sports and the Internet.  Ufford nailed this one.  Nicely done. ...

Mon AM 'Guide for Mainstream Media' Edition
Published 7/9/2007 by John at John Clifford Ness
... from a satirical FanHouse post. And this made no one was happy. In an effort to make some community lemonade out of this large lemon of a situation, Matt Ufford took some time and wrote up a post that pretty much says it all: How to Give Blogs Credit: A Handy Guide for the Mainstream Media If you read this memo, there's an awfully good chance you care about this sort of thing. So please check it out. And then enjoy today's absurdly overstuffed turducken of a memo. Video Joy: ...

Happenings And Mishappenings: Roger Federer Is A Beast
Published 7/9/2007 by Luke Halpert at Nyjer Please
... Hey mainstream media, give us bloggers our due. - Fanhouse ...

Guide For Mainstream Media In Dealing With Bloggers
Published 7/9/2007 at SPORTSbyBROOKS
BLOGGERS GUIDE SURE TO ENLIGHTEN MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Matt Ufford of WITH LEATHER hops over to AOL FANHOUSE and pens this handy guide to the mainstream media in understanding bloggers : The cause for this manifesto came from a Sports Illustrated writer taking an uncredited P. Diddy quote from a blogger. The catch to this online theft was that ...

Monday 07/09 A.M. Quickie:MLB Awards, HR Derby, NBA Summer, SI Scandal, More!
Published 7/9/2007 by DanShanoff.com at Dan Shanoff
... Navel-Gazing: If you are as fascinated as I am by the relationship between mainstream sports media and sports blogs, Matt Ufford's Fanhouse post explaining said sports blogs to said mainstream media is a must-read. ( ...

Monday Thumbtacks: Alllllviiiiin!
Published 7/9/2007 by TheHype at NBA Basketball and Other Unrelatedness
... the other day let s just say that now, it should be obvious that it s a bit beyond blogging etiquette and more like ...

Required Reading on Traditional Media's Abusive Relationship With Blogs
Published 7/9/2007 by TZ <info@sactownroyalty.com> at Sactown Royalty: Front Page Posts
Matt Ufford wrote a tremendous piece on FanHouse re: recent traditional media gaffes relating to blog content. It was spurred by the ...

Grizz Hungry For Leftovers
Published 7/9/2007 by Hot Shit College Student at Taurine Dream
... Because I would hate to disappoint this self-righteous jpeg swapper blogger (surely the first time mainstream media types have been challenged on the internet), I give full credit to message board poster ...

High Five
Published 7/9/2007 by Fornelli at Foul Balls
A quick look around the interweb while exchanging text messages with Brian Urlacher Mr. Ufford puts away the pictures of naked women long enough to write a nice guide for the mainstream media to help teach them how to give credit to the blogs they steal from. [ The FanHouse ] Some folks still seem to think that Buehrle is going to get traded. [ ...

The Roundup: Pap and Ocho, Collison Likes ‘The Hills’ and Get Ready for Becks
Published 7/10/2007 by TheBigLead at The Big Lead
... Hey media people, this is how you give bloggers credit. (Fanhouse) ...

Isn't is sweet when you can't enter a title for a ...
Published 7/10/2007 by littles: at The Dude Abides
... Matt Ufford drops by Fanhouse to give some lessons to the MSM on how to credits bloggers. I'm looking at you Sports Illustrated. ...

What they wouldn't show you
Published 7/11/2007 by SportsGirl365 at Strike Zones and End Zones
... *Matt Ufford wrote a great column on this. I highly recommend checking it out when you get a chance.

Links!
Published 7/11/2007 by Kristin at Drunken Bleachers Blog
... Matt Ufford has a great piece over at AOL Fanhouse: How to Give Blogs Credit: a Handy Guide for the Mainstream Media. [Hat tip to ...

Blog Show XV Pre-Production Meeting
Published 7/12/2007 by dcsportsguy at Mr. Irrelevant
... How to Give Blogs Credit: A Handy Guide for the MSM [FanHouse] ...

An Open Letter to Ian Thompsen
Published 7/12/2007 by Fornelli at Foul Balls
... of all, it's just FanHouse. Not AOL FanHouse, or even The FanHouse. Don't worry about that though, I just learned it myself! Anyway, while we at FanHouse appreciate the apology, I don't really appreciate the wording you chose in describing the quote. You see, when saying it's a fabricated quote you imply that Miss Gossip (whom I'm sure wouldn't mind if you apologized to her by name) deliberately tried to trick her readers into thinking Puff Daddy actually said that about Printezis' suit. The thing is, at the end of the blog post Gossip included one key sentence. [Editor's note: the preceding conversation may have taken place in Miss Gossip's imagination only.] What this means is that Gossip wrote a satirical post. Which further means her quote wasn't fabricated. There's quite a bit of difference there, actually. Of course, maybe if you had given Gossip and FanHouse credit to begin with, none of this would have happened. If you're not sure how to do that, I refer you to this ...

Link-O-RamaFollowing in the footsteps of Jason Tyn...
Published 7/13/2007 by Aaron at AaronGleeman.com
... Because the information comes from a website, it's somehow not worthy of the same treatment? The information is good enough to reference and discuss, but the source isn't good enough to be properly credited? At this point, with a huge percentage of newspaper audiences coming from online readers and most newspaper websites housing blogs that are written by reporters, what exactly is the point of treating websites like anonymous masses? A guide to giving blogs credit is definitely needed. ...

The Blog and Media Wars
Published 7/13/2007 by CFR at CollegeFootballResource.com
... We're still working it all out. ...

Link Dump On Your Chest
Published 7/14/2007 by Bstone at Brahsome - Care To Get Nice?
... [Fanhouse]

Deadspin, ESPN, and the Sports Media Revolution: A Blogosphere Anthem
Published 7/22/2007 by T Kyle King <info@dawgsports.com> at Dawg Sports: Front Page Posts
... , and covers the N.F.L. for The FanHouse, at the latter of which his noteworthy piece appeared. Ufford explained how blogs operate and how bloggers interact, including the etiquette underlying the "hat tips" and reciprocal links bloggers give one another as a way of giving credit and showing respect. (If anything, many of us err on the side of excessiveness in that department, which is how a fellow gets a reputation as a guy who " ...

The Hibachi will roast you
Published 8/6/2007 by Doctor Dribbles at We Rite Goode
... Now, bloggers have to be careful on this sensitive issue. Certainly, WRG doesn't want to condone the lifting of unattributed material. We don't need a high score on the M Zone Wonderlic test to know it's bad form. ...

Exhibit #2,732 That Journalism Is Going Down The Tubes.
Published 8/28/2007 by Signal to Noise at Signal to Noise
... Oops. Shall we be sending Alex Johnson (or the writers/interns who compiled the article, if it wasn’t her) a copy of Ufford’s FanHouse post about how to read and attribute blogs properly? ...

Memo to Sharpton-bashers
Published 8/29/2007 by Beau Dure at Sports Scope
... , but if they're going to link to Ufford's lecture on blogging , we're going to link to ...

On MSM Blogs
Published 11/14/2007 by Andy Grabia at The Battle of Alberta
... at length in a post last week. There are certain things that an MSM blog will never do, certain words or suggestions you’ll never see on any MSM bloggers site. But the non-MSM blog won’t have that direct access, won’t get that inside story from a player or coach that explains a certain act or decision. I wonder, then, if long-term the most successful blogs won’t be the ones that straddle that line between MSM and non-MSM. Further Reference “How to Give Blogs Credit: a Handy Guide for the Mainstream Media” by Matt Ufford. ...

It's Not A Rumor
Published 11/21/2007 by Brian at mgoblog
... you have contributed to the maelstrom. You've made it worse by allowing it to flap in the wind, unsourced, instead of tied to a specific, very blamable person. Ignoring the source of news is not journalism. It's the arrogant assumption readers that are incapable of judging the trustworthiness of a source for itself, the fear that once loosed into the great wild yonder they will find your content tepid, and the tacit acknowledgment that meritocracy is very bad for you. So source it. PS: It has been brought to my attention that recently, this ...

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