{"id":60,"date":"2011-01-11T10:34:22","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T10:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cbavington.com\/blog\/?p=60"},"modified":"2011-01-15T17:37:43","modified_gmt":"2011-01-15T17:37:43","slug":"the-linkage-curse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cbavington.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/11\/the-linkage-curse\/","title":{"rendered":"The linkage curse&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If I link to your blog, it&#8217;s time to start worrying. Not that you&#8217;ll realise I&#8217;ve linked to it, since I haven&#8217;t figured out all that trackback and what have you stuff yet. No, you&#8217;ll only realise when there is the threat of legal action or some other time-consuming hassle.<\/p>\n<p>First, poor old Miguel Llorens had to move his blog <a href=\"http:\/\/traductor-financiero.blogspot.com\/\">here<\/a> (and to be fair, to update what I said in Nov 2010, the comments are all back, even if the links to the commenters&#8217; websites do not all work) and, if you plough through it, you&#8217;ll find dark references to muttered half-threats from m&#8217;learned friends.<\/p>\n<p>And then, this week, poor old <a href=\"http:\/\/translatorsteacup.lingocode.com\/\">Rose Newell<\/a> gets it in the neck from some apoplectic &#8220;Director&#8221; of the company whose email she quoted in the post I linked to last week. Which has now changed. Luckily for me, the point I wanted to make about it remains. Unluckily for her, she&#8217;s got to cope with some uber-sensitive foreign fellow with sketchy knowledge of the UK legal system who wants to sue her for every teacup she owns because she raised a couple of queries about his translator registration process. (See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.proz.com\/forum\/scams\/189239-agency_i_anonymously_blogged_on_threatens_legal_action.html\">here<\/a>, if it stays)<\/p>\n<p>So maybe it&#8217;s just as well I would have been &#8220;meh&#8221; if it happened to me&#8230;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I link to your blog, it&#8217;s time to start worrying. Not that you&#8217;ll realise I&#8217;ve linked to it, since I haven&#8217;t figured out all that trackback and what have you stuff yet. No, you&#8217;ll only realise when there is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbavington.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/11\/the-linkage-curse\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cbavington.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cbavington.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cbavington.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cbavington.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cbavington.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.cbavington.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65,"href":"https:\/\/www.cbavington.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions\/65"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cbavington.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cbavington.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cbavington.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}