Alanz Eyes

Federation’s End (a story) - #4

2 comments January 26th, 2006

Coming Home

Jupiter loomed large in one of the transport’s many view screens; it’s rings glistening in the radiance of the distant sun. Getting here had taken more than he could have imagined, and help from places he never would have expected.

Friends, he mused silently, looking down at the identity document that had his face, but another name on it. Even friends who he’d long since given up on… he would’ve never gotten this far without them.

Attack of the blogs

3 comments January 26th, 2006

There’s a lot of talk in the ‘blogosphere’ over the past couple of days, but particularly today, about Darren Rowse of ProBlogger having his paid-for-and-copyrighted design stolen and used by Vince Chan of AmBlogger. A number of people have entered the fray, on one side or another, with one of them being ‘chartreuse‘ who suggests that Darren, instead of demanding the design be changed, should have just asked for a link back to his own site as the inspiration for Vince’s blog design.

While I can see the value of the argument that imitation is the greatest form of flattery, and that imitating something is only increasing the exposure (and value) of the original, I can also see the value of the opposite argument, where someone paid a good deal of money to create and copyright what is theirs, and as a result they don’t want that stolen by anyone else.