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RE: I'm not gonna disclose every post

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I'd comment on your blog Robert, but you don't support the comment API so it's against my personal rules. Anyway, Scoble had this to say about my post last night.

When would I not listen to my bosses? If they told me to put a disclaimer on every post. That's not a blogging best practice, sorry Josh. Find another way.

I start out with the belief that my readers are smarter than I am. If I need to put a disclaimer on every post that means I need to treat them like babies. Not gonna happen here, I don't care what the lawyers say.

[Via Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger]

I somehow missed the part where I declared it a best practice to disclaim every post? Its amusing, because I've seen Robert warn people that journalists can and will take your blog out of context and misquote you. It's not too late for him. I bet he could get a job writing for a tech magazine. :-) I think Robert might be a little too sensitive on the issue.

I do state that I think there are valid concerns that the disclaimer, TOS, and privicy information is not disclosed if you read or reply to blogs through an RSS aggregator. I don't think I offered a solution that I endorsed. Making it "part of the RSS feed" does not Necessarily mean you having to insert it on every post. The title of my blog is not included in every post. It could be like the privacy policy that is exposed by web pages and rendered in the IE UI. When blog reading becomes more standardized then these things could be exposed through the UI. I'm simply making the point that there are problems with even trying to enforce a disclaimer if it is deemed necessary.

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  • Anonymous
    June 02, 2004
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  • Anonymous
    June 02, 2004
    Thanks for the apology. I don't believe it is a best practice or even in the readers best interest, but I do think there are some valid concerns I've noticed since I rarely ever visit the blog web pages anymore. It leads me to miss out on statements like "We will collect personal information if you choose to register on the Site." I've since seen some even scarier disclaimers and privacy statements on non-ms blog sites as well. Stuff I would have never seen if I never visited the web home of the blog.
  • Anonymous
    June 02, 2004
    If you want scary disclaimers, how about the ones <a href="http://www.gripe2ed.com/scoop/story/2004/5/13/0529/97735">Ed Foster</a> has been pointing to?
  • Anonymous
    June 02, 2004
    You currently have Privacy, Disclaimer and TOS links on this page.

    And I agree that including all of them as part of every message is not acceptable.
    For examples in case if your message will be quoted - all of them will be removed.
    Consider reading in RSS aggregator as quotation. Program automatically quote you and give a credit to your original HTTP page.

    IMHO, It's completely another problem that only a few people actually read and understand all those terms, disclaimers and software licenses. Mostly people simply ignore them.
  • Anonymous
    June 02, 2004
    Garrett: Your right. Those are scary. Sort of Like the Itunes one where they can pick your pocket after you buy the music.

    AT: I don't condone putting them in every message. I agree that most people probably ignore them as well. At least the ones linked on this page are readable IMO.
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    June 16, 2009
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