Most of you may not remember either Look or Life magazine, as both ceased publication in the early seventies.
They were bi-weekly periodicals with minimal text that featured photographs of current events. One could say that with either publication a picture was literally worth a thousand words.
In the spirit of these once great magazines, here are a few pictures from this past week. What story do they tell you?
Thank goodness for the Coupa connection . . .
If you want you can even read my posts on Spend Matters PRO (click image below) – of course here, they are free.
New Leonardo and The Digital Renaissance video published (Click Mona To Watch)
And Speaking of Leonardo . . . Heeeere’s Watson (oops wrong Leonardo) – Read Asha McLean’s take on IBM’s Watson meeting SAP’s Leonardo (not this Leonardo, the other one).
Finally, thank you for all the good wishes on this blog’s 10th Anniversary! (I’ve aged some I know).
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Carina Kuhl
May 19, 2017
Hi Jon – Congrats on 10 years of ‘Procurement Insights’. Seeing your blog post, I inquired what was going on here…
It turns out that when we initially set up our Spend Matters Chief Procurement Officer site, we decided to aggregate links to top procurement articles as a benefit to our readers, where they could see trending topics and click through to the origin site to read the content.
The functionality originally used page redirects to push the reader to the article site, but those pages were never public – they simply redirected to the original content. We eventually re-architected the way we were handling feeds to simply point to the article without the redirect, but we missed a few of the original ‘blank posts’.
We have corrected the issue with your two posts and have made a permanent redirect for anyone who tries to hit the original redirect page.
Apologies for the confusion.
Best – Carina
Carina Kuhl, VP Marketing, Spend Matters
piblogger
May 20, 2017
Thanks for your reply Carina. While I appreciate your acknowledgment that Procurement Insights provides “top procurement” content, it doesn’t explain why you felt that you could as several of my readers have suggested: “scrape my content without my permission for material that Spend Matters readers had to pay to access?”
Kelly Barner
May 20, 2017
Hi Carina, I think your explanation for what happened makes sense, including the error caused by the change in how redirects are handled. I absolutely believe that there was no negative intent on Spend Matters’ part. The question hanging out there is why this path was chosen from the outset? Jon had no knowledge that his content was being posted in Spend Matters two years ago, which means that any other authors of “top procurement content” would likely be in the same position. Who was making the decision about what content was “top procurement content? Has all of that other redirected content been removed as well? I could be wrong, but I rather doubt that Spend Matters would accept their content being linked to behind the paid login of another site.
Carina Kuhl
May 20, 2017
Hi Jon,
Actually, there was never any Procurement Insights content behind ANY Spend Matters membership paywall – ever.
There was never anything other than a title and link back to his content. There was no scraping.
We used your RSS feed: https://procureinsights.wordpress.com/feed/
Have a good night,
Carina
piblogger
May 20, 2017
Thanks for the further clarification Carina. So Spend Matters PRO is free? The reason I ask is that your Information & Pricing page reads as follows; “Spend Matters Plus and PRO are paid member programs that deliver procurement and supply chain professionals an information advantage by providing original thought, insightful analyses, and unbiased opinion that doesn’t hedge, obfuscate or pander.”
Here is the link to that page; https://spendmatters.com/info/?s2-ssl=yes