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Metadata justice
Last spring, a marketing and web design company inexplicably scraped one of my library school group projects for metadata. They hid my name and those of the other group members and our client in text that was the same color as the background beneath their footer. (There's a lot of other unrelated garbage still in there. It's pretty funny.)
I emailed the other site's creator twice, nicely, over the course of six months, to remove my name from their "keywords," which yielded a promise to fix it but no results.
Then I emailed Google like the tattler I am. Guess what?
DABLEETED!
Into the black-hat SEO pit with them in under 2 weeks. Google their own real name and you can't even find them in fewer than 2 clicks. I kind of feel bad now...no, wait, not really.
∞ | January 24, 2005 in metablog
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Damn, girl your hard core. Noted: to never offend your sense of IP. Perhaps you should persue a meta data contract assassin position.
Posted by: Matthew Jording | Jan 24, 2005 2:51:22 PM
I can see that: "In a world... where controlled vocabularies have given way to the vigilante law of folksonomies, a lone cataloger takes authority control very seriously indeed. Go 'head on now."
Posted by: nichole | Jan 24, 2005 3:51:33 PM
Maybe they were innocent? Maybe it was a big misunderstanding? Another Nichole? They never got your messages, maybe?
HEY! Do you have anything to do with all the spam I've been getting?!
Posted by: r.piggy | Jan 24, 2005 6:06:11 PM
In a world... where controlled vocabularies have given way to the vigilante law of folksonomies, a lone cataloger takes authority control very seriously indeed.
You're crazy.
Posted by: r.piggy | Jan 24, 2005 6:07:57 PM
Like a fox.
Posted by: nichole | Jan 24, 2005 6:14:37 PM
ROFLMAO. You sure you aren't Malachi Bowles, Nichole?
Posted by: Dorothea Salo | Jan 24, 2005 10:03:08 PM
Absolutely pos!
Posted by: nichole | Jan 25, 2005 7:59:56 AM
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