Tuesday, May 31, 2005
Planet HCI
Now this throws up an interesting dilemma. This website is an aggregator of HCI blogs, and so provides a useful service for people who want a one-stop-shop for an RSS feed, and until half way down the page I was all in favour, and pleased that the HCI commentary was featured.
But then I saw the 'make a donation' button. Now, I don't really understand why someone who is not creating content and not disseminating it in any meaningfully different way should make money our of my writing and blogging. But do I want to stay in this, or not?
And if people subscribe to this feed, then I'll not get notified, so althoguh I may still have the same audience, it'll appear that they've all disappeared. And all this without the owners of planet HCI even emailing me.....
Now this throws up an interesting dilemma. This website is an aggregator of HCI blogs, and so provides a useful service for people who want a one-stop-shop for an RSS feed, and until half way down the page I was all in favour, and pleased that the HCI commentary was featured.
But then I saw the 'make a donation' button. Now, I don't really understand why someone who is not creating content and not disseminating it in any meaningfully different way should make money our of my writing and blogging. But do I want to stay in this, or not?
And if people subscribe to this feed, then I'll not get notified, so althoguh I may still have the same audience, it'll appear that they've all disappeared. And all this without the owners of planet HCI even emailing me.....
Comments:
I agree about the asking for donations. Why would anyone do that? But they do link to the original source so why do you care? Just curious.
Hi Russell. I'm having a similar problem with Planet HCI. An interesting thing has been happening recently that makes all this so apparent. My posts are showing up twice on the site. Once when my feed initially goes out. Once when the feed from usernomics gets read, because they're repurposing my feed, too.
Why is it that the content creators are always the ones who have to fight to get credit? I'm starting to get angry about it.
The damn irony of it all is that I found your interesting site through Planet HCI...
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Why is it that the content creators are always the ones who have to fight to get credit? I'm starting to get angry about it.
The damn irony of it all is that I found your interesting site through Planet HCI...
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