[kictanet] Abuse of KICTANET forum by Biz.Daily journalist

[Ory Okolloh]

Thanks Grace.

My issue -  there's a big difference between including a link to a Blog /
Blog post e.g. Kachwanya's - and calling comments on a discussion list a
blog.

Kivuva, re the harm - its one thing if you search the Kictanet archives
online or come across them and see my comments in context of a discussion
thread etc.   I'm well aware that this is not a private forum

Cutting and pasting them into a print publication without context /
checking with me is poor journalism, at best.

Ory




On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Grace Mutung'u (Bomu)
<nmutungu at gmail.com>wrote:

> Blog of the week is a columnett in the Business Daily that features
> interesting blogs as they appeared on the Net...it usually runs on
> Mondays (I think) and it seems not to be on the online paper.
>
> Sometime back Kachwanya of Bloggers Association was also featured. See
> http://www.kachwanya.com/business-daily-blog-of-the-week-kachwanya-com/
>
> Seems like a collection of stories from the public domain....
>
> On 11/10/2012, Ory Okolloh <ookolloh at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Let me clarify with the person who sent it to me.
> >
> > Ory
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Grace Githaiga
> > <ggithaiga at hotmail.com>wrote:
> >
> >>  Ory
> >>
> >> Could kindly clarify. Is this blog in the Business Daily of NMG?
> >>
> >> Usually newspapers carry email addresses of authors as a sign of good
> >> faith. *HOWEVER,* you should have been informed that the paper intended
> >> to carry your comments for you to indicate if you were okay with that.
> >>
> >> Rgds
> >> GG
> >>
> >> ------------------------------
> >> Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 11:36:51 +0200
> >> From: ookolloh at gmail.com
> >> Subject: [kictanet] Abuse of KICTANET forum by Biz.Daily journalist
> >> CC: kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke
> >> To: ggithaiga at hotmail.com
> >>
> >> Dear listers,
> >>
> >> A friend in Nairobi just emailed me this print article (attached)  in
> the
> >> Biz Daily paper where my comments on the ETNO proposal last week are
> >> featured as the "blog of the week" and my personal email address
> included
> >> as the "title of the blog"
> >>
> >> This is an outrageous abuse of this forum where the discussion is often
> >> open and insightful - do people now have to worry that their comments on
> >> Kictanet will be passed off as an article somewhere?
> >>
> >> *vexed*
> >>
> >>
> >> Ory
> >> *I try to keep my emails short and to the point:
> >> http://emailcharter.org/*
> >>
> >>
> >>
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