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Update Sept. 13th The final chapter in my Twine.com saga is here

After updating my previous Twine.com post I realized that those who read via RSS may not get the latest updates. I decided to take them out of the original article and create a new one. Sorry if you've seen them already. If you don't know what's going on the back story is here.

Twine.com responded the next day to my email and removed the article.

I have no reason to doubt the comment from Twine.com on the original post that this was simply an over exuberant user and illustrates the problem with user generated content, when you let them generate the content that has your websites name on it you rely on your users to pay attention to copyright and fair use issues.

I am curious what a Twine.com user does to bookmark a page. Do they simply paste the URL and Twine retrieves the page for them or do they have to copy and paste the text from the page? Can any Twine user enlighten me? Twine is still in closed beta so I can't check for myself until and if they give me an invite. I suspect after the fuss I have raised they may not be too happy with me which I can totally understand, They are doing their best and some know it all blogger comes along to make their life miserable. Maybe in their zeal to make things easier for their users they made things too easy. Perhaps some of the semantic webs power could be used to help educate Twine.com's users how to keep on the right side of copyright issues.