A note about “press releases” and “news releases”:
Our current MotoGP content provider is the Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS). Ironically IMS sends us almost the same stories word-for-word that are available from Dorna, except Dorna won’t send them to dangerismymiddlename.com, but IMS will, and IMS explicitly gave us permission to post them here. Thank you so much to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway!
This Web site primarily exists so that motorcyclists can share opinions. These opinion stories are augmented by Press Releases. The distributor of each Press Releases is solely responsible for its contents.
- Our first priority is to respect all content holders. If you would like us to remove any content, then please ask via email, and please accept our apologies. We also apologize for any imposition. This has occurred one time. The AMA sent us a Press Release. I embedded a photo from the AMA’s Web site. It was a photo that they were using with their copy of the story-in-question. We were asked to remove the image, because it was owned by a third party that gave permission only to the AMA. We removed the image immediately.
- Our second priority is to leverage available resources within the cloud at little cost as possible. As of 2009-11-06 this Web sites revenue is $0.00.
- #1 trumps #2 always.
Press Releases are chosen for these reasons:
- They tell a story that we feel is appropriate for this Web site, even though these aren’t our stories, and in some cases, these stories may be contrary to our opinion. For instance: if the Press Release is from AMA Pro Racing, then that is AMA Pro Racing’s opinion, and may not be the opinion of dangerismymiddlename.com.
- We have permission to re-distribute them, either by request, or in some cases the distributors are making these stories widely available via their Web sites, with permission to redistribute stated there. In some cases this statement is in a terms-of-use document, and in some cases the Web site makes Web site embedding code available.
These press releases don’t do much as far as getting search-engine hits is concerned. Apparently Google “knows”, that they are not unique to our site.
We want to say an extra-special thanks to the following organizations for creating content that we used on dangerismymiddlename.com. Thank you. I heartily apologize for any missed organization from this list.
- American Motorcyclist Association (AMA)
- Buell Motorcycle Company
- Danny MacAskill (via YouTube)
- Daytona Motorsports Group / AMA Pro Racing (DMG / AMA Pro)
- Ducati Web Kit
- Fischer Motor Company
- Flickr.com
- Harley Davidson Motor Company
- HJC Helmets
- Honda
- Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS)
- James Gang/Hoban Brothers Racing
- Michelin
- Mission Motors
- Motorcycle Safety Foundation (MSF)
- New Jersey Motorsports Park
- OnTheThrottleTV
- Suzuki Media
- Twitter.com
- Yamaha
- YouTube.com
