From a blog post found at the place that calls itself Oklahoma’s Website:
Post Date:
Friday, Feb 1st, 2008 at 10:10 am
We’re checking on the rumor that this guy is former Oklahoma defensive lineman Moe Dampeer and that he has made it through to Hollywood on American Idol.
Supposedly Moe has lost 150 pounds and turned his eyes to singing.
Funny, we always thought of Moe as more of a dancer.More to come…
Well, well…it sure is comforting to know that the same guys who told us Bob Stoops was a boilermaker are now checking on a rumor that a skinny Moe Dampeer is on American Idol. It’s also comforting to know that a big, powerful, professional money making website like NewsOK.com basically regurgitated information from a not-for-profit blog and then passed it off as their own. Seriously, it’s like the only differences between the two posts (see below) is that ours was posted 8 hours earlier, we figured out how to embed a YouTube Clip, and we probably have more readers.
I think that if NewsOK.com really wants to get big into this blogging thing, its writers should practice normal blog etiquette. For example, they should link to or cite the other blogs that provide them with their information. Doesn’t that seem like a better thing to do than rewriting the same story and then passing it off as your own? Just click the links below for some classic good examples:
Anyway, I hope this maybe opens some eyes and helps change the ways of NewsOK. If they are going to claim to be “Oklahoma’s Website,” at least they can set a good example.
Yes, yes, yes, blogs have been discovered at http://www.newsok.com.
I promise I will use links and will never copy and paste anything from the all knowing lost ogles without permission. But with that said, can I use the phrase “quite short, yet all over the map and doesn’t seem to make a whole lot of sense”?
A fan - Steve Lackmeyer
If you can stay on the trail of Moe Dampeer and somehow prove that is actually him (and, at the same time, all those cynical skeptics wrong), you can say whatever you want, as far as I’m concerned.
I may have to leave that task to professional sports writers like Jenni Carlson.
Whatever
I understand Mr. Monday, but Steve confuses me.
Mr. Monday believes we have a Steve Lackmeyer imposter.
Bizarre.
By the way, boys, that deal was on the OU message boards all day, too.
A Steve Lackmeyer imposter? No disrespect to him intended — I actually quite like the guy — but I bet Steve Lackmeyer never thought he’d have someone running around pretending to be him. That’s just one step up from pretending to be Clark Matthews.
Low blow.
Cheap, but no surprise.
It’s crazy how a simple joke has spread so far and wide.
Moe doesn’t look skinny:
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=35334072
Interesting turn of events …
Lambuth University. Not even a good NAIA football program… ughhh….
sssscandalous…