Didn't find the post so odd, but was more interested in his speculative comments than in his blame-assigning.
May have more to say later, but it's off to jury duty for me in a minute. On your question about the site feature, yes, the click-to-source is intentional. Could go either way on it. If I were commenting on the items rather than just "noting and quoting" them, I might go with the other mode, but seems less like "stealing content" this way. At the time I implemented the feature at OT, I hadn't yet coded it in as nearly foolproof a way for the aggregator-curator. If I had it do over, I might choose link-to-source for OT, too, but differences over the feature itself were part of what led to my separation from the site, and I think a link-to-source approach would have accentuated them.
BTW, did you ever hear back about Electronic Atomic Geography?
Didn't find the post so odd, but was more interested in his speculative comments than in his blame-assigning.
May have more to say later, but it's off to jury duty for me in a minute. On your question about the site feature, yes, the click-to-source is intentional. Could go either way on it. If I were commenting on the items rather than just "noting and quoting" them, I might go with the other mode, but seems less like "stealing content" this way. At the time I implemented the feature at OT, I hadn't yet coded it in as nearly foolproof a way for the aggregator-curator. If I had it do over, I might choose link-to-source for OT, too, but differences over the feature itself were part of what led to my separation from the site, and I think a link-to-source approach would have accentuated them.
BTW, did you ever hear back about Electronic Atomic Geography?