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SysCon attacks prominent blogger (aralbalkan.com)
23 points by gareth on March 30, 2009 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments



The actual article is here: http://aralbalkan.com/2067

The link just points to the root aralbalkan.com, which is the landing page.


There's 3 posts showing the evolution of the debacle, hence the root link. Apologies :)


Is there a cliff notes version?


Sys-Con published an article about Aral Balkan. The bulk of the content was just copied from his website. The page title and one little snippet in the body of the article were in Turkish, defamatory, vulgar, and false.

Backstory: Sys-Con have some thing they call "Ulitzer" which supposedly provides lots of useful and interesting content; they supposedly claim that it's going to kill Wikipedia and so forth. Apparently it included a whole lot of Aral Balkan's writings, again copied without permission and without informing him. (I haven't checked to see whether their use of his material was legal despite being rude.) He got cross at them on Twitter, and that seems to have provoked this weird behaviour.

The one time I've heard of Sys-Con before was when their columnist Maureen O'Gara published a rather nasty "investigative" stalking article about Pamela Jones of groklaw.net. I suppose they must publish worthwhile things from time to time too, when they run out of people to smear.




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