GameCyte Needs A Clue
by Alphaville Herald on 23/04/08 at 11:26 pm
the Second Life Herald offers a PROTIP
To: Sean Hollister – Assistant Editor, GameCyst.com
From: Pixeleen Mistral, managing editor- Second Life Herald
re: News tip: The TRUE story of NASA’s MMO Funding
Sean,
Thank you so much for your e-mail. I did check out the story on your blog, and well, you can color me like just totally super impressed. I mean its like sooooo awesome how you cite the gamasutra.com, slashdot.org, and wired.com guys that ran re-writes of our NASA Wants an MMO – for Free! story on monday afternoon after the Second Life Herald broke the story on Sunday morning. I’m especially impressed that you managed to do this without mentioning the Herald.
protip: cite primary sources and you might make managing editor someday.
signed,
your like absolutely total fangirl who is breathless with excitement that
you want us to reference your weak followup story but didn’t bother to
mention the people who broke the story in the first place
-pixeleen mistral
reply-to sean@gamecyst.com,
to pixeleen.mistral@gfail.com,
date Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 7:59 PM
subject News tip: The TRUE story of NASA’s MMO Funding
We just finished putting the wraps on the true story behind the mysterious disappearance of NASA’s MMO funding.
Check it out:
http://www.gamecyte.com/2008/04/23/nasa-asking-for-free-mmo-hardly/906
Sean
–
Sean Hollister
Assistant Editor, GameCyte
(666)666-6666 // sean@gamecyst.com
Angel
Apr 24th, 2008
Bitter much Pix?
shockwave yareach
Apr 24th, 2008
The RFQ from NASA has been out now for several months. Not exactly a state secret.
Obscure Doodad
Apr 24th, 2008
Ooooh, get him, Pix!
Sigmund Leominster
Apr 24th, 2008
Grrrr! I just LOVE bad girrrls! Yeah, make him suffer, Pix, and keep snapping at his ankles ’til he admits the Herald scooped ‘em all!
Penance Sautereau
Apr 24th, 2008
Now wait a sec Angel. If you wrote something which someone else then used, in any fashion, without citing your hard work, you wouldn’t be just the least bit twinged? Pix is absolutely in the right to lambaste a clearly unprofessional twit. When I still wrote here people shat on me for “not doing my research”, (oblivious to the fact I actually DID do research, more than Muyo I expect), so when Pix lambastes someone for cannibalizing her hard work that clearly didn’t fully research his source material, I’d expect the Herald trolls to laugh at his fail, not bitch Pix out for defending her work.
You go Pix. Pight the Fower!
sirhc Desantis
Apr 24th, 2008
Is that his real phone number lol Way to chew the thief out Pix
DinkyHockerShootsSmack!
Apr 24th, 2008
Funny thing is, when people would point out how LATE (or never chimed in at all) the Herald has been on some important stories, or how clearly insane some of the contributors are, Uri used to break into “This is a blog, we’re not trying to be a professional news outlet!”
Yeah, funny that. This place is just a blog when criticised but is some sort of REAL news outlet when someone “steals” from them.
Prokofy Neva
Apr 25th, 2008
Um, rewrites of the Herald? This story would have some traction if that were true. Not a single one of those three sources in fact cite the Herald, either, and maybe because…the Herald isn’t a source on a story that everybody at a conference got lol.
I cringe when I see what the Herald has become these days.
Uh....
Apr 25th, 2008
Um… that’s okay Prok, most people cringe when they see what you have become these days, so it balances out.
Hiro Pendragon
Apr 25th, 2008
Sadly this is rampant in the video game review community.
Cockhoenut Koala
Apr 26th, 2008
What a poorly written letter for Pixeleen calling herself some sort of “writer”.
Since when did “Protip” become appropriate for email usage?