spiegelman:

Ever tried to copy and paste something out of a HuffPo article?  Give it a shot.

huffpo:

Last month, we asked for your help in picking the HuffPost Game Changers, 100 innovators, visionaries, and leaders who are harnessing the power of new media to reshape their fields and change the world.

Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/meet-the-huffpost-game-ch_b_302980.html

That “read more” link?  I didn’t copy that.  It pasted itself in there.  Some fundamental rule of etiquette is being violated.  Not to mention I don’t know how they did it and it scares/intrigues me.

I recently noticed the same thing when I copied and pasted an excerpt from a NY Daily News article. What’s strange is that you can just delete the “read more” link, so I don’t understand what exactly they’re doing. Unless they’re trying to prompt you to give credit or link back and not simply copy and paste. Which is kind of ironic coming from the Huffington Post.

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   I recently noticed the same thing when I copied and pasted an excerpt from a NY Daily News article. What’s strange is...

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    I’m not bothered by it — in fact, I kind of like it. Since I like to attribute my quotes with a link, they’ve just saved...

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    Lotsa sights doing that now. Politico, NYPost.com, Daily Mail, etc. I don’t think it’s so bad. It gets them some inbound...

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    JavaScript at its best.

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