Why Not to Switch to Partial Feeds

March 24, 2008 | Filed Under Blogging, Content Scraping, Features, Feeds, Legal, copyright, plagiarism | 17 Comments

When people first discover that their content is being scraped, they often overreact. When they do, their first action is usually to alter their feed to change it from “full” to “partial”, thus turning off the flow of content to the spammers.
However, in doing so they also turn off access to their site’s content to […]

Protecting Your Content From the Spinning Spammers

November 12, 2007 | Filed Under Features, Feeds, Legal, autoblogging software, copyright | 31 Comments

Last week, Tony posted an article about a somewhat different kind of spam blogger.
The spammer had taken an article from this site, scraped it and then modified it before republishing. Though the method of modification remains debatable, it is clear that it was through some automated means as the duplicate version was mangled and borderline […]

Goodbye to Splogs and Feed-Driven Blogs

October 8, 2007 | Filed Under Blogging, Content Scraping, Ethics, Features, Feeds, Legal, Splogs, copyright, plagiarism | 22 Comments

After much soul searching and internal debate, I’ve decided that I’m done with splogs and feed-driven blogs generating content from my blogs. Aren’t you?
Here is the scenario.
A trackback comes in with the following starting off the “quote”, followed by the start of your blog post content:

[…]admin wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick […]

Content Theft: How At Risk is Your Blog?

September 10, 2007 | Filed Under Content Scraping, Features, Feeds, Legal, Splogs | 9 Comments

It’s a sad fact that pretty much any content posted to a blog or otherwise passed through an RSS feed is going to get scraped at one point or another. On the Web today, there are so many spammers spitting out junk blogs that almost everyone will be a victim of content theft if they […]

FeedBurner Shows New Affection Towards BlogSpot Feeds

July 12, 2007 | Filed Under Blog Software, Feeds, General, Google | 9 Comments

Shortly after being acquired by Google (not to mention releasing several premium features for free), the FeedBurner team is at it again, this time positioning itself as the “de facto” stat feed king for blog*spot weblogs.
FeedBurner is now allowing Blogger users to know whether or not users are reading their site on Blogger’s native feed […]

Google Gives Golden Features From Feedburner For Free

July 3, 2007 | Filed Under Blog Software, Feeds, General, Google, Technology | 4 Comments

After previously purchasing Feedburner for a reported $100 million in cash, it looks as if Google Goliath is throwing a few golden bones towards the blogosphere by giving away pro features from Feedburner for free.

Feedburner statistics control panel showing zero subscribers

April 30, 2007 | Filed Under Feeds | 7 Comments

Feedburner appears to be experiencing some problems this morning.
When I logged in to look at my subscriber counts this morning, the control panel showed them all at zero. So did the graphs.
However, the ‘chicklet’ still displayed yesterday’s subscriber levels (I don’t have it on every blog), but that’s not too surprising as it’s not updated […]

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Do You Tag Yourself?
May 16, 2008 | By Lorelle VanFossen | 2 Comments

Do you tag yourself? Honestly? No, this is not a game.
With everyone back on the tag versus categories versus tags bandwagon, have you checked to make sure you are tagging yourself?
Inside of Lorelle on WordPress is the tag attribute that turns “Lorelle on WordPress” into a tag.
<a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/" title="Lorelle on WordPress" rel="tag">Lorelle on WordPress</a>
When […]

A BIG Reason to Read a Pet’s Blog
May 16, 2008 | By Andrew G.R. | Leave a Comment

I’ve often taken a snarky approach when it comes to people who set up blogs for their pets. I barely want to read about humans’ mundane lives, let alone issues with litter and pooper scoopers. However, there might be a new reason to subscribe to Lucky, Fido or Buddy’s blog.
Animals’ ability to prognosticate […]

Yahoo Nabs Safari Plugin Inquisitor
May 16, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | Leave a Comment

Inquisitor is a cool plugin for Safari, and now Yahoo owns it. The developer, David Watanabe, won’t be joining Yahoo, but will continue the development.
I look forward to assisting Yahoo! in refining and extending the Inquisitor user experience beyond where it is today. I truly believe that Inquisitor and its users can only benefit, both […]

YouTube Gives You Insight
May 16, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | 1 Comment

Now you can get some more statistics for your YouTube videos, with the recently launched Insight tool, available in your YouTube account (under Manage my Videos, which is probably temporary). The new stats feature is described like this by Tracy Chan, YouTube product manager:
For example, uploaders can see how often their videos are viewed in […]

Google the New Number 1 in the US
May 16, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | Leave a Comment

I thought they were already, but obviously not so. Google has been the leading search engine, but overall Yahoo is the most popular web site according to ComScore’s rankings. No more though, according to an AP report:
According to comScore, Google’s unique U.S. audience in April was 141.1 million, an 18 percent increase from the same […]

Blogging from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
May 16, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | Leave a Comment

Stephanie Stockman is a NASA contractor working at the Goddard Space Flight Center, which is cool by itself. What’s even cooler is that she’s blogging it, talking about rocketships in voice and text, as well as posting photos, something every space nerd should follow for sure. Her blog is Geosteph, which incidentally is her Twitter […]

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