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Today's Lesson in Blog/Website Etiquette

Note to Detroit's 97.1 "The Ticket" (or perhaps more specifically, to whomever posts material to the "Valenti and Foster" page):

If a blog posts a photo, one the author created himself for his website, and which wasn't published anywhere else, and you take that same photo, post it on your site, and neglect to give proper credit to the original source, that's rude. (Kind of like a certain MLive.com blogger did to us one time... oh, and another time.)

It's like if one of us ran a clip from the show, perhaps one in which no host or station names were mentioned, and didn't cite where it came from. A douchebag move, really.

We're talking about four to five words and a hyperlink. It's not a lot to ask for. And it's the right thing to do.

(But hey, at least you posted the image to your own website host, instead of stealing bandwidth. See, you're not that bad.)

If you have any questions, perhaps you might consult this post from DigiKev. (See what I did right there?)