KPAM: A Cautionary Blogging Tale

Submitted by LynnS on Thu, 02/01/2007 - 6:28am.

If you are a media person out there and you are new to blogging, take note of what recently happened to KPAM's Victoria Taft. This is what I'm assuming happened: She linked to a photo out there on the Internet without permission, or without hosting it herself, the person whose bandwidth she was using without permission got ticked off, and he swapped out the innocent picture she was expecting for explicit porn.

In any event, there is still not-safe-for-work porn on Taft's blog as of 5:30 this morning, noted on several local blogs yesterday afternoon. I expected by the time I got around to posting this the pic would have been deleted, but no. Victoria, or whoever maintains her blog, wake up! Take it down! Screen shots are being taken linking your name to explicit porn!

Moral of the story: Don't link other people's images. You may lose control of what the image is and embarrass yourself--especially if you're a conservative talk show host.

Via Blogtown, which had it first as far as I can see.

Update: It's finally down, with an apology.

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Submitted by Anonymous Source (not verified) on Thu, 02/01/2007 - 7:44am.

When you regularly blow by the truth, I guess this is illustration you get!

Submitted by Anonymous Source (not verified) on Thu, 02/01/2007 - 10:49am.

Jeez: What's taking them so long to take it down?

Submitted by Anonymous Source (not verified) on Thu, 02/01/2007 - 11:03am.

at 10am Thursday!

Submitted by Anonymous Source (not verified) on Thu, 02/01/2007 - 11:22am.

Is that really Victoria Taft. I always knew she s-----d, but Wow!

Submitted by tvprintradio on Thu, 02/01/2007 - 11:44am.

closeted gay Republican.

Submitted by Spiro on Thu, 02/01/2007 - 12:16pm.

This is not actually a current post from her blog...it's from October, in her archives, but even so...it's really surprising that it's still, uh, up.

Submitted by Freelancer on Thu, 02/01/2007 - 5:36pm.

http://victoriataftkpam.blogspot.com/

4:33 p.m. and at least she apologized. :)

Don't listen to her show, nice plug she put in her apology too.

Submitted by rfaaberg on Sat, 02/03/2007 - 12:30am.

That's sort of like 10 year-old cautionary stuff, but I guess each new generation has to live and learn.

We all learned early to put up something ugly for those who were mooching graphics. I usually put up "This graphic was ripped off from my site" or something similar and made it really big so it would bust up their site. :-)

Viewer Rick

Submitted by LynnS on Sat, 02/03/2007 - 11:00am.

and that's kinda my point. :)

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Lynn Siprelle * Fairy Blogmother

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