Did you know that I write for the China Daily? I didn't...
They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Well, I feel really flattered, because the China Daily copy and pasted my last post on 'net stars pretty much in it entirety here. At least they gave me the byline...
I checked with Jeremy from Danwei about this. He said China Daily has done it before to him as well as to ESWN. I am honored to be in the company of such China blog technorati.
I could be angry, but....naah, there's not much I can do. I guess it doesn't really hurt me, but I do wish they would have linked to this blog or refer to my company (at least changing the "we" to "CIC data"), then it would've helped me. Also, if I had known they were going to publish it, I would have worked on my writing a bit more. I really didn't fine tune this one like I should have.
Sage from Pacific Epoch writes about the incident here and picked up on the irony of the banner advertising for English language copy-editors and writers.
posted by Sam Flemming @ 8:21 PM
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Don't complain. I had one of the big wire services basically take one of my posts and run it without any attribution whatsoever. When I had someone from my office call to complain, the person there just said, "well, it's quite possible that we came across this information, completely independently of your blog." Yeah, right.
Actually, according to China Daily's copyright you are now in violation of the law:
Copyright 1995-2006. All rights reserved. The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimedia information, etc) published in this site belongs to China Daily Information Co (CDIC). Without written authorization from CDIC, such content shall not be republished or used in any form.
that's hilarious.
having said that, i had some questions to ask. how have you been able to get blogger.com to show in china (since my site is blocked), and have you been able to generate enough hits to make some money from your blog? just curious.
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