Calling Out John Anderson of ClipClip.org

I never speak negatively of people related to our industry, it’s simply bad form. However in this case, I feel like I have to defend myself. I was checking the backlinks to my site and noticed some traffic from ClipClip.org. I followed the link back and found a relatively negative post about Squareoak from a user named John. In the post, John is commenting on this Squareoak post that lists the javascript for auto populating many bookmarking sites. This javascript is something that bookmarking sites provide so that users can simply click on the bookmarklet in their toolbar and post whatever content they’re currently viewing. For some reason John thinks that my post is somehow spammy. Not only is this javascript provided by the bookmarking sites themselves but my suggestion of replacing a standard bookmarked URL with the actual javascript provided can help people save space in their toolbar. This increased efficiency also helps and promotes the intent of sites like ClipClip.org.

If people decide to use existing ClipClip.org functionality for spammy purposes that’s no fault of mine. It’s simply a little off-setting when someone with completely unoriginal ideas like ClipClip.org or URL.com associates my corporate image with spam. I detest spam, it’s the antithesis of the internet’s intent. Thanks for the shout out John but do me and other industry professionals a favor and keep your clips to yourself.

Oh and if you’re going to publicly criticize me, could you do it with more than a frowny face?

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