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Looks like Kottke is upset about a recent CNET story:

News.com ruminates about Google building a collection of tools that serve as a replacement OS. Where have we heard that recently? You’re welcome for the story idea and thanks for the non-link, guys…tech journalism at its finest. I hereby institute a policy of not linking to you for a year.

This is certainly pushing the envelope a little bit. I can’t claim to say where the story came from or where CNET found it’s motivation bit I’m willing to bet Kottke’s original post had something to do with it.

Even if it didn’t if CNET did even a small amount of research they would have realized that he blogged about it 24 hours earlier and should have at least linked to him.

Calacanis has more on this meme:

I’ve been giving CNET a hard time for stealing our stories without credit for a while now. It’s not just WIN either, bloggers like John Battelle, Rafat Ali, and Om Malik have caught CNET poaching red handed.

Luckily my blog isn’t good enough to worth poaching! :)

This is a bigger problem than just CNET. They obviously have a policy of never providing links which is just low. A lot of other MSM publishers seem to have the same policy including CNN, The New York Times, LA Times, etc.

What gives? It would be nice to have a way to protest. Maybe everyone could start using nofollow links to anyone who carries Blogosphere memes without contributing back.

Actually I kind of like that idea!