Yesterday, Hot Potatoes reported that the Coeur d'Alene Press registered two CDA blog names after a spat between Editor Mike Patrick and Phil Corless of The CDA Blog. Phil brings us up to date here:

RE registering domain names, like Hagadonia.com... I'm not going to spend one cent on this little game that Mike Patrick and the Press decided to play.

Yes, cdablog.com and thecdablog.com were registered AFTER Patrick emailed me about the dumb little photo that I borrowed. It was a retaliatory move on his and Hagadone Corp.'s part. On top of that, he (or someone with that company) ANONYMOUSLY commented on my blog to go look at those newly minted URLs. Like, "Look what we did... We got you! HA HA HA!" What they didn't know is that I've been thinking up a new name for my blog since October when I discovered there already is a CDA Blog (www.collegedems.com/blog/) and I didn't want to step on their toes any further. It's bad form to take someone else's blog name. Hear that, Hagadone? Bad. Form.

My blog name change is coming. The CDA Blog... I couldn't care less. But the way in which the Press and Hagadone went about this will stick with me. They had the chance to work with me on their blog project, but they chose instead to make an enemy.

Phil Corless
The CDA Blog

DFO: You go, Phil; btw, you should send a Christmas card to Mike and the Press. You can't buy publicity for your blog this good.

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