aralbalkan.com — Ulitzer proudly proclaims that they have more than 6,000 authors. Who are these authors? Well, in the case in point, the 'author' is Aral Balkan, well known open-source developer in Flash and Cloud App Development circles. The thing is, he has never written for Ulitzer, aka Sys-Con. When he called them on it, they then libeled him on their site.
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pradeekMar 30, 2009
This is stupid. I feel sorry for Aral.
n0sebluntMar 30, 2009
This story is almost unbelievable.
radison2Mar 30, 2009
Looks like it's time for Digg Lynching. Who has the pitch forks? I'll go get the torches.
rapellaMar 30, 2009
Sys-con > Con. Nuff said
lelanderMar 30, 2009
Outrageous. Who has time to deal with this kind of thing..?
samlewMar 31, 2009
I have a friend who had a run in with them years ago. You're right, they apologize -- then put it back. Kinda like they said they were going to fire that woman blogger who found out where the other woman lived and published it (can't remember -- some Linux related thing)... And they said they were firing her. Yet she's on the front page of their site now. They rarely pay anyone for anything anyway...Someone needs to do a class-action and then get their advertisers involved and take them down. For good. It's disgusting (someone is making the money for the 3,000 ads per page they have up on their 20 or more mirrored sites)...
crunkyApr 23, 2009
Fuat deserves himself.