Comments on: Insights Gained from Yesterday’s “Laws of Software Development” Article

By: Andy Brice

Andy Brice — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 23:40:44 +0000

or BoingBoing -> *of* BoingBoing

bleh

By: Andy Brice

Andy Brice — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 23:37:29 +0000

I chatted to Cory Doctorow briefly at the “festival of inappropriate technology” in London some years ago. Had I heard or BoingBoing I might have begged for a link to my blog. ;0)

By: Joey deVilla

Joey deVilla — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 22:16:37 +0000

@Jeff Atwood: Please don’t hate me because I know beautiful* people!

(* “Beautiful” in the Technorati ranking sense.)

By: Jeff Atwood

Jeff Atwood — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 21:50:35 +0000

I think you have a great blog– I do– but still, that was 95% friend-of-doctorow, 3.5% Phil Haack, and 1.5% inspiration.

I’m just sayin’.

By: Joey deVilla

Joey deVilla — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 20:08:32 +0000

@Jeff Atwood: Can't argue with that point, hence my quoting the old "It's not what you know, it's whom you know" line. That being said, I still have to do something "Boingworthy" to get the link.

By: Jeff Atwood

Jeff Atwood — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 19:45:20 +0000

Also, be friends with Cory Doctorow.

Don’t forget that part.

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:59:40 +0000

Yeah, but the bottom line is you took a post by someone, altered it a little bit. Put it up, got a link from BoingBoing and cross-posted it on a high-traffic web site (tucows developer blog).

At least, you gave Phil credit for the original idea AND linked to him. Kudos for that. I see high-traffic blogs post things that are very similar to low-traffic blogs, sometimes within minutes or hours of the original posting.

But it would have been nice for Boing Boing to acknowledge Phil’s original article.