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Politicker: Worst Website in the World?

by: Dean Barker

Sat Feb 21, 2009 at 07:48:54 AM EST


A sad denouement to a site that I once linked to and cheerled at every turn:
to contact@politicker.com
date Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 7:12 PM
subject Blue Hampshire and PolitickerNH
mailed-by gmail.com

Dear Sir or Madam,

I've been receiving a number of complaints from my readers about politickernh.com, which, despite its defunct status, is putting every blog post we have on our front page as its "News Feed".

We are a blog, not a news outlet, and our material is posted on your site in full without any context or additional writing by Politicker's reporters.  Nor were we ever approached about this happening.

I ask that you please not continue to use us as a "news feed" for your site.

Or if you won't, please do not label our blog posts  a "News Feed", please use fair use quotes (as we do on our site, three paragraphs or less), and please provide it in the context of your own writing (as we do).

Otherwise, it appears you are making advertising revenue straight off of our work.

Thanks for your time,

Dean Barker
Managing Editor
Blue Hampshire

No answer as of yet.  So I'm curious to see if a robot or a human is behind our new and unwanted shadow site - thus the experiment here.

Apologies for filling up the front page with this, but if it works, it's worth it.

Dean Barker :: Politicker: Worst Website in the World?
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This diary is now on PolitickerNH (4.00 / 1)
takes a while to percolate, but evidently untouched by human hands.

And the robot wins! (0.00 / 0)
Or else a human really good at bluffing...

birch, finch, beech

[ Parent ]
Robots are the future, don't you know? A fully automated (0.00 / 0)
world in which nobody is responsible.  That's the conservative idea of heaven.  The automatic free market was supposed to be a start.

What I'm waiting for is an ethical discussion of fully automated warfare run by robots.  The Predators started out as surveillance vehicles, but have now been armed.  The New Yorker has a story about a guy who wants to weaponize them with his recoilless machine guns.
The report is that the Pentagon has been reluctant to do business with the inventor.  Let's hope it's because they have some ethical concerns about assassinations by remote control.


Remember Capek's "RUR"? (n/t) (0.00 / 0)


[ Parent ]
Love the headline, Dean (0.00 / 0)
You have a precedent to cite, too -- the Gatehouse/NYT settlement. That's an unofficial precedent, but it was a high-profile case.

Maybe you should try... (0.00 / 0)
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