Comments on: Developing Your Content Theft Strategy http://www.blogherald.com/2008/01/21/developing-your-content-theft-strategy/ The leading source of news covering social media and the blogosphere. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 02:30:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: How to Help Immunize Your Site Against Scraping : The Blog Herald http://www.blogherald.com/2008/01/21/developing-your-content-theft-strategy/comment-page-1/#comment-379352 How to Help Immunize Your Site Against Scraping : The Blog Herald Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:34:09 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2008/01/21/developing-your-content-theft-strategy/#comment-379352 [...] writing about something, if you’ve touched on a related topic before, link to it Make the linking natural but try to link to at least a few of your own posts within your entries. [...] [...] writing about something, if you’ve touched on a related topic before, link to it Make the linking natural but try to link to at least a few of your own posts within your entries. [...]

]]> By: vaspers, etc. http://www.blogherald.com/2008/01/21/developing-your-content-theft-strategy/comment-page-1/#comment-349447 vaspers, etc. Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:10:45 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2008/01/21/developing-your-content-theft-strategy/#comment-349447 Thank you for leaving a comment at my usability blog, on my post about plagiaristic Vampire Blogs (RSS parasites). I Googled your name, because I get a lot of trolls, sweet innocent mild mannered Vaspers, imagine that, and am honored that you visited me. You are a Blog Herald writer and a leading authority on online plagiarism. Pleased to meet you. I am the leading authority on blogocombat. Our paths shall cross frequently I'm sure. One trick I occasionally use to track who's plagiarizing me or negative linking me is to embed my own blog URL into a period or comma, in hopes that they pick up the HTML of my content, and it thus acts as a tracer beam, my plagiarized content is linking back to me, so it hits my radar. Thank you for leaving a comment at my usability blog, on my post about plagiaristic Vampire Blogs (RSS parasites). I Googled your name, because I get a lot of trolls, sweet innocent mild mannered Vaspers, imagine that, and am honored that you visited me.

You are a Blog Herald writer and a leading authority on online plagiarism. Pleased to meet you. I am the leading authority on blogocombat. Our paths shall cross frequently I’m sure.

One trick I occasionally use to track who’s plagiarizing me or negative linking me is to embed my own blog URL into a period or comma, in hopes that they pick up the HTML of my content, and it thus acts as a tracer beam, my plagiarized content is linking back to me, so it hits my radar.

]]> By: Developing Your Content Theft Strategy : Blogazine http://www.blogherald.com/2008/01/21/developing-your-content-theft-strategy/comment-page-1/#comment-328644 Developing Your Content Theft Strategy : Blogazine Mon, 28 Jan 2008 05:33:02 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2008/01/21/developing-your-content-theft-strategy/#comment-328644 [...] Read more of this story at BlogHerald.com [...] [...] Read more of this story at BlogHerald.com [...]

]]> By: Writing - Cooking - Life » Blog Archive » Life Is a Learning Experience http://www.blogherald.com/2008/01/21/developing-your-content-theft-strategy/comment-page-1/#comment-325553 Writing - Cooking - Life » Blog Archive » Life Is a Learning Experience Thu, 24 Jan 2008 23:05:21 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2008/01/21/developing-your-content-theft-strategy/#comment-325553 [...] Edited to add: Here’s another specific link that tells you how to develop your content theft strategy . [...] [...] Edited to add: Here’s another specific link that tells you how to develop your content theft strategy . [...]

]]> By: Jonathan Bailey http://www.blogherald.com/2008/01/21/developing-your-content-theft-strategy/comment-page-1/#comment-324341 Jonathan Bailey Wed, 23 Jan 2008 02:22:25 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2008/01/21/developing-your-content-theft-strategy/#comment-324341 Olivia: You can use Copyfeed for both purposes. The link is in the post above. I'll make a note of that for future reference. Thank you very much for the heads up! RoboJiannis: I agree that many bloggers are drowning in statistics, I've never been one to obsess over numbers myself (other than thinking it's fun to watch them go up) but if your content is an important creation and your goal is to have it passed around and spread, tracking it not only lets you monitor it, but join in on the conversation as it is posted elsewhere. It seems to me to be a metric that could also lead to a more rewarding experience as a creator. Olivia: You can use Copyfeed for both purposes. The link is in the post above. I’ll make a note of that for future reference. Thank you very much for the heads up!

RoboJiannis: I agree that many bloggers are drowning in statistics, I’ve never been one to obsess over numbers myself (other than thinking it’s fun to watch them go up) but if your content is an important creation and your goal is to have it passed around and spread, tracking it not only lets you monitor it, but join in on the conversation as it is posted elsewhere.

It seems to me to be a metric that could also lead to a more rewarding experience as a creator.

]]> By: DigMyPage http://www.blogherald.com/2008/01/21/developing-your-content-theft-strategy/comment-page-1/#comment-323935 DigMyPage Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:00:29 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2008/01/21/developing-your-content-theft-strategy/#comment-323935 <strong>Developing Your Content Theft Strategy</strong> Developing Your Content Theft Strategy

]]> By: robojiannis http://www.blogherald.com/2008/01/21/developing-your-content-theft-strategy/comment-page-1/#comment-323340 robojiannis Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:12:31 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2008/01/21/developing-your-content-theft-strategy/#comment-323340 Jonathan I agree with your points. I find it completely unethical to copy content without permission. You're also right, that this is a personal decision. But I must raise my objections in the information issue. True. Following yor content can be used as a metric. I just see it as one more metric. Bloggers have already so many metrics to use, that sometimes they (me too, I admit) lose the aspect of the forest by concentrating on a tree. Jonathan
I agree with your points. I find it completely unethical to copy content without permission. You’re also right, that this is a personal decision.

But I must raise my objections in the information issue.
True. Following yor content can be used as a metric. I just see it as one more metric. Bloggers have already so many metrics to use, that sometimes they (me too, I admit) lose the aspect of the forest by concentrating on a tree.

]]> By: olivia http://www.blogherald.com/2008/01/21/developing-your-content-theft-strategy/comment-page-1/#comment-323331 olivia Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:43:15 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2008/01/21/developing-your-content-theft-strategy/#comment-323331 For whatever reason antileech is no longer a working download, and my digital fingerprint also stopped working and the plug-in has not been updated in some time. If there are any other plugins out there I'd love to hear about them. For whatever reason antileech is no longer a working download, and my digital fingerprint also stopped working and the plug-in has not been updated in some time. If there are any other plugins out there I’d love to hear about them.

]]> By: Jonathan Bailey http://www.blogherald.com/2008/01/21/developing-your-content-theft-strategy/comment-page-1/#comment-323271 Jonathan Bailey Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:56:03 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2008/01/21/developing-your-content-theft-strategy/#comment-323271 Robo: The problem with the quote is that the difference between research and plagiarism is not the number of sources, but attribution and ethics. You can plagiarize many sources as easily as you can plagiarize one. Ask Cassie Edwards or Kaavya Viswanathan. That being said, many do choose to not enforce their copyrights and many are successful with that strategy. However, tracking how your content is used is still vital, like any other metric, it can tell you which of your works are the most popular, what you can do to grow your audience and how to best serve those that read your work. Not enforcing your authorship rights is a personal choice, but turning down the information that can be gleaned from tracking your content is turning away useful information. That is just my humble opinion, but I find that knowing in this area is always better than not. Robo:

The problem with the quote is that the difference between research and plagiarism is not the number of sources, but attribution and ethics. You can plagiarize many sources as easily as you can plagiarize one. Ask Cassie Edwards or Kaavya Viswanathan.

That being said, many do choose to not enforce their copyrights and many are successful with that strategy. However, tracking how your content is used is still vital, like any other metric, it can tell you which of your works are the most popular, what you can do to grow your audience and how to best serve those that read your work.

Not enforcing your authorship rights is a personal choice, but turning down the information that can be gleaned from tracking your content is turning away useful information.

That is just my humble opinion, but I find that knowing in this area is always better than not.

]]> By: PlagiarismToday » Podcast » Episode 42 - Ford Tough http://www.blogherald.com/2008/01/21/developing-your-content-theft-strategy/comment-page-1/#comment-323266 PlagiarismToday » Podcast » Episode 42 - Ford Tough Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:49:16 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2008/01/21/developing-your-content-theft-strategy/#comment-323266 [...] my RSS feed. Thank you for visiting!It is Monday again and that means it is time, in addition to my regular posting on the Blog Herald, for another episode of the Copyright 2.0 [...] [...] my RSS feed. Thank you for visiting!It is Monday again and that means it is time, in addition to my regular posting on the Blog Herald, for another episode of the Copyright 2.0 [...]

]]> By: robojiannis http://www.blogherald.com/2008/01/21/developing-your-content-theft-strategy/comment-page-1/#comment-323263 robojiannis Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:46:20 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2008/01/21/developing-your-content-theft-strategy/#comment-323263 Someone (I don't remember who) once said: "Copying a single resource is called plagiarism, copying many is called research." I'd rather concentrate on my content, instead of my authorship claims. Someone (I don’t remember who) once said:
“Copying a single resource is called plagiarism, copying many is called research.”
I’d rather concentrate on my content, instead of my authorship claims.

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