Comments on: A Guide To How Not To Do Web 2.0 Design (And Tech Reporting)

By: Smith

Smith — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 19:13:41 +0000

“Who knows what is going on here.”

You should have found out before you made this post. You make it sound like you designed Copyblogger and this guy ripped it – you’re that pissed off.

And the ‘rip’ is debatable.

By: David Krug

David Krug — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 06:30:43 +0000

Mark,
Thanks for stopping by. Always a pleasure.

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 01:41:56 +0000

I don’t know that that is really true about Scrivs WJ – but this knucklehead (the “author”) is faaaaarrrrrr from his first two posts and a very loooooooong way from his first two Blogs and hasn’t changed one bit! Megan, he destroyed his first impressions ages ago.

It won’t be long before he leaves this one in his wake also. Broken rib, jailed in Mexico, booze problem or whatever other excuse he’ll manufacture.

Yeah you, David, Cowboy, whatever…

By: WJ

WJ — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 09:29:59 +0000

Haha, I think I just saw reasons 3, 89 and 105 not to buy somebody else’s blog. Paul Scrivens leaves nothing but broken, pissed off communities in his wake. I wish to God people would stop buying his effin’ blogs so he’d have to get a real job.

By: LSF

LSF — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 00:23:40 +0000

The Copyblogger theme was released as a package to be used by small businesses – check the copyblogger archives for details. Perhaps Patrick felt it was acceptable to download it (as invited to do so) and then make changes. Seems like the real issue is a lack of acknowledgement. That’s all.

By: Megan

Megan — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 18:25:19 +0000

Ouch. Bad spelling, bad grammar, bad argument. You may only be two posts deep, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t have come out of the gate swinging. You know what they say about first impressions…

By: Brian Gardner

Brian Gardner — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 23:17:44 +0000

Being a designer, and one that offers free themes, I can say that I relate to what David is trying to say in this post. However, I also know that Chris P. is right, in that it’s not worth it to get upset over certain things that happen to us as designers.

Someone taking my themes and distributing them without my permission, trying to rip off code on my current website are among the things that happen.

Unfortunately, c’est la vie. As it is flattering, it’s also annoying. But I have too many better things to do than to police people in a country 4000 miles away that probably will never end up using the theme they have “bootlegged” from my site somehow.

By: David Krug

David Krug — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 22:50:15 +0000

Who knows what is going on here. I give up. I still think its cheap.

By: Hans

Hans — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 19:45:42 +0000

@ Frostie

that was the previous one they were using. The current rip of BlogStorm is from the actual theme they’re using.

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 16:49:47 +0000

Wow, wisdump is terrible now.