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CircleID bug report.

Interesting blog items occasionally show up on CircleID. That's good, because CircleID is indexed by Google News. There's one bad habit with CID, though: Headlines often get changed there, sometimes changing meaning (even if slightly), and causing confusion.

It would be good if CircleID would ask authors before re-publishing changed versions of opinion pieces.

Posted by Thomas Roessler on December 24, 2003 8:49 AM | Permalink

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Ali Farshchian:

Thanks Thomas, this is a good point and deserves a careful consideration. Further Comments on this Issue: http://www.circleid.com/internal/internal_comments/408_0_4_0_C/ Regards, Ali CircleID

Posted by Ali Farshchian | December 24, 2003 8:53 PM

Posted on December 24, 2003 20:53

Thomas Roessler:

As a brief clarification, the bad habit I've been referring to is not so much changing headlines or editing articles -- these can be useful and legitimate things to do. The bad habit is making these changes without consulting an article's original author.

Posted by Thomas Roessler | December 25, 2003 5:11 PM

Posted on December 25, 2003 17:11

Ali Farshchian:

Thanks again for the note Thomas, but as I had mentioned in the previous post (see above) and the related link, we do not make changes without consulting the original author. I would appreciate a particular example where you feel this has occurred so we can see why and how without the consent of the author anything has been modified. Thanks

Posted by Ali Farshchian | December 28, 2003 6:36 PM

Posted on December 28, 2003 18:36