Have you ever noticed that the site called Podcasting News rarely if ever includes external links to information sources or relevant websites in the items posted to their blog feed? I have and it really pisses me off. So much so that I'm unsubscribing from their useless feed, much of which is culled from press releases that are regurgitated as "news.' Not news, just regurgitated PR hype.

And when Podcasting (Not!) News links to podcasts in their (Not!) news posts they rarely do a favor of linking to a podcast producer's website. Users are sent on to Podcasting (Not!) News' lame feed reproduction pages, which don't include links to the feed owner's websites.

Oh wait! They do include external links to a site called Video Podcasting News. I did a little check on the Who Is for both sites. Turns out that both "news" sites are registered to the same individual, although you would never know that the two sites are connected.

So why am I so miffed? There is a thing in the world of blogging called etiquette. Proper blogging etiquette dictates that you link relevant sites that you mention as well as linking to the proper information sources. Based on the practices of Podcasting (Not!) News you would be left to assume that they are the originating source for all of this information. Alas, they are not.

You know who you are over there. And you've been doing this long enough to know that you should give credit where credit is due.