Cowboy Caleb the liberal arts, grown-up stuff & random mischief

Decisions Decisions

LX has emailed Tomorrow.sg to take down TF’s blog post. Should they?

It’s your vote.

does it really matter now whether Tomorrow.sg take down TF’s blog post now that even last night’s chinese paper reported about it! Besides other forums like sammyboy.com’s alfresco coffeeshop are also ‘talking’ about this issue.

Hi cowboy,

was wondering about something. does tomorrow.sg actually email the owner of the blog they are planning to tomorrow if the concerned blog is recommended by a third party just to check if the owner wants to be tomorrowed?

i know there is a “tomorrow i not free” tag. but i believe that some of those tomorrowed might have been caught by surprise… as in, they did not put the “tomorrow i not free” thingy on their personal posts coz they didnt realise that their posts could actually catch the attention of the editors. suddenly, a personal post circulated around the few people who had their blog address is shared by the entire blogging community.

cheerio,
yl.

yea I concur with yl. I know I’m not singaporean and all that lah, but I think that’s something to ponder upon.

Not every blogger wants their entry to be published on tomorrow.sg, and that’s especially true for highly controversial ones like TF, SPG, etc. Its publicity but sometimes the publicity it brings can very well spiral out of control.

Its safer to assume nobody wants to be tomorrow-ed than to assume everybody wants to be tomorrow-ed.

The news has already been circulated for so long, i doubt it’ll make much difference to take the post down. I understand that it’s rather troublesome to go to every blogger to ask if they’re alright with being tomorrow-ed, but i think that for controversial issues like that - its better to be safe than sorry. Keep up the good work at Tomorrow.sg

Just wanted to tell everybody that your blog is public. If you want to shy shy, then go post in LJ and password protect it. Especially for blogspot blogs. There is really no right to demand ‘privacy’ when it is a free service you use. Besides, not linking is basically the antithesis of blogging, think about it.

I voted for “no” cause it was uploaded to a public space for everyone to read. According to the old comparison”never put anything online that you wouldn’t want to have displayed on a billboard on Times Square”

If we assume no one wants to be Tomorrowed unless otherwise stated we’d be totally out of business.

Tym has an excellent post about why permission is not required when you link somebody.