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

Fri Oct 12 16:48:45 EAT 2012

Hi Ory,

Unfortunately many in Kenya. Especially the media as well as Govt have yet
to be schooled on internet terminology. Many refer to KICTANET and other
mailing lists as a blog - and have little or no idea of the etiquette
issues surrounding the same.

The error in this case, in my view is that whoever decided to put that in
their publication ought to have sought your consent first of all and also
enquired as to attribution - do you want to have your personal email
published, do you want to have your full name, plus official work title or
should it be attributed to you in your personal capacity - do you want any
attribution at all or would you rather remain anonymous?

Our media folk still have a lot of work to do in terms of styling up - and
worst of all, this passed some editors desk and he gave consent without
first of all checking on whether all the prerequisites on attribution have
been fulfilled.

Pole sana,

Mblayo

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On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Ory Okolloh <ookolloh at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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