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I'm not sure how I feel about the ethics of this. Did we learn anything we didn't already know? That most tech bloggers don't properly source their material. Th
by stanleydrew 14y ago
I'm not sure how I feel about the ethics of this. Did we learn anything we didn't already know? That most tech bloggers don't properly source their material. That once enough momentum is behind a story, more well-established outlets will run with it as well. I think most of us knew those things already.
- manaskarekar 14y agoIt reminded you to take the next rumor with a bucket of salt. And for some, to think twice before investing in a company, based on rumors.
- khet 14y agoIt proves a point IMO and educates readers on how these rumors start and why they shouldn't be trusted.
- shardling 14y agoIt's kind of amazing that no one contacted the original image uploader, and that he didn't have to do any promotion of any kind.
- notatoad 14y agoIt's worth noticing that he says he didn't email this to tech writers, he didn't tip anybody, all he did was put the picture on picasa. If he'd gone out and told people he had inside information about the next nexus, that'd be kind of mean, but i'm pretty sure there's nothing unethical about putting a render on picasa and just letting the internet go crazy speculating about it.
- Apocryphon 14y agoI wonder if there are people who continuously trawl the streams of Picasa, Flickr, imgur, and other photo sites.
- paulsilver 14y agoThey're probably just using Google Alerts. If he tagged the image "nexus" when he put it on Picasa it'd be indexed by Google very quickly (they run Picass) and hit Alerts e-mails soon after.