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@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@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@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@gmail.com
>> Subject: [kictanet] Abuse of KICTANET forum by Biz.Daily journalist
>> CC: kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke
>> To: ggithaiga@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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