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by geweke 4385 days ago
Thanks so much for replying. My concern wasn't about permission -- I'm far from protective of my talk; hey, more distribution is great! -- so much as it was the appearance of the site. (And even the video -- you overlaid your logo on every frame of the video.)

To me, http://www.hakkalabs.co/ looks a great deal like a blog. When I see a blog -- particularly with a name and photo of the author on an article -- I naturally assume that author either created that content specifically for that blog, or authorized/contributed that content specifically to that blog. If that's not the case, I think the blog needs to make it very clear that they are republishing content taken from elsewhere, without the author's knowledge. There's nothing wrong with that (assuming you have permission); it's just about making it clear that that is what's actually happening.

(Underneath, it's about the perception that I am somehow "contributing to" or "endorsing" Hakka Labs by posting content I created there. I'm not saying anything bad about Hakka Labs at all -- I simply don't know enough to judge either way! -- but IMHO it's not cool to create that perception without the author's knowledge. It'd be like a startup GitHub clone suddenly hosting my open-source code under an 'ageweke' account with my name and photo: while they absolutely have every right to do that according to the licenses involved, it gives the perception that I'm a user of their site and uploaded my code there...when, in fact, I've never heard of them before.)

Anyway, don't want to derail this technical discussion any further; feel free to reach out to me directly over email if you want to chat about anything else. You certainly have my email address. ;)