This is interesting. For anyone who read my earlier entry on deciding to no longer contribute to the Core77 design website (Link), there was a long entry over there this morning by the person to whom I was referring. I only noticed it because of the flood of traffic to this blog. Note that I said “was”. It’s now been removed from the website (kind of – it’s still accessible if you have a link; my link is in the now very long referral log).

I can only imagine that the issue I raised: having uncompensated bloggers posting entries and then having them perhaps or potentially finding other ways to benefit from their efforts – and the resulting problems this can cause – isn’t something that they care to air out in the open.

Actually, I don’t have to imagine it. Thing is, I don’t doubt they’re good people, they just don’t seem to fully grok all this. Yet.

For those reading this, I’d suggest you also read my earlier comments on the risks companies like Burger King (and Core77) take when they go to the “community” for content. The comments I made are on BusinessWeek’s Blogspotting website (Link). I didn’t imagine this kind of scenario and don’t doubt there are others. But there’s something else I don’t really emphasize in those comments: this issue doesn’t just bite big corporations; it bites everyone. Including the good guys.