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May 05, 2005

Caught in the BlogosphereNPR misses the issue

In an article, When Those Pesky Blogs Undermine NPR News, NPR Ombudsman Jeffrey Dvorkin wrote:

Over the past weekend, NPR placed the document on its Web site.

But some NPR listeners and cyber-savvy bloggers (people who run personal Web sites on the Internet) soon discovered if they downloaded the document from npr.org and translated it into another format, the edited portions could be restored.

Anyone downloading the document could have found the edited portions and put the full document on a Web site. What makes this situation unique to blogs is the way the message spread – RSS, trackbacks and links – which contributed to more people finding the information quickly.

Although the document may have been posted on various blogs, the problem itself is not blog-related. The real issue screaming for attention is that our Department of Defense doesn't know how to protect a document!


Posted by at May 5, 2005 02:46 PM

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