<div dir="ltr"><div>Happens all the time, Joe.</div><div>People replied to my queries quoting me as the source of information provided by others in reply to MY queries. I am sure it's happened to other listmates as well.</div><div>Anyway,very sad that, at his age, an obilt had to be published.</div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Marek<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 16 Jun 2020 at 21:16, Joe Bebco <<a href="mailto:joe.syncopatedtimes@gmail.com">joe.syncopatedtimes@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">My own brush with Brooks Kerr was a bit more esoteric. His obituary<br>
was the first viral story we had on Syncopatedtimes.com. At the time<br>
the website was only a few weeks old and none of the content from the<br>
paper was on it. It was essentially just a place to put a paypal link<br>
to renew the print paper. I was already writing obituaries for print<br>
so I started putting them online as I wrote them. (It made for a<br>
pretty depressing website, nothing but obits!)<br>
<br>
When Brooks Kerr died a lot of the best information I found was from a<br>
New York Times profile in the 1970s. He had a great quote about<br>
himself, too good to pass up, so I used it and diligently cited the<br>
source. Online I even linked to the original NYT story in their<br>
archive.<br>
<br>
A week later the site starts getting all kinds of traffic out of<br>
nowhere. (At least for then, it was a quarter of what we get on a<br>
normal day now but I was floored by it.)<br>
<br>
The New York Times had cited The Syncopated Times in their obituary<br>
for Kerr. They attributed to us the quote that we had clearly<br>
attributed to them, and linked to us from their online story. They<br>
also made it seem like the quote was much more recent than the early<br>
70s if not contemporary.<br>
<br>
We've had several more legitimate brushes with fame since, as after<br>
that they from time to time began correctly citing us as a source.<br>
<br>
Joe Bebco<br>
Associate Editor<br>
SyncopatedTimes.com (315) 507-5490<br>
A monthly newspaper covering Hot Jazz, Ragtime, and Swing.<br>
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