Copyright Infringement: The Most Common Outcomes

April 7, 2008 | Filed Under Features, Legal, Splogs, copyright, plagiarism | 2 Comments

It seems that a large number of bloggers run their sites with very little thought about copyright law. Though they don’t plagiarize content or scrape feeds, they grab images, copy large blocks of text and embed media without much thought to the original author or whether their use is truly “fair use“.
It seems that many […]

How to Help Immunize Your Site Against Scraping

March 31, 2008 | Filed Under Blogging, Content Scraping, Features, Feedburner, Legal, SEO, copyright, plagiarism | 7 Comments

Scraping is one of the most annoying things that bloggers have to deal with. It can hurt their search engine ranking, cause confusion among readers and cause them to unwittingly help spammers line their pockets.
Nobody likes being scraped but it seems that some sites are able to survive it relatively unscathed while others are bumped […]

Blogging is About Writing - and Not

March 25, 2008 | Filed Under Blog Marketing and Monetization, Blog Monetization, Blogging, Comments, Content Scraping, Editorial, Ethics, Featured, Features, Guides and Tutorials, Legal, Marketing, Professional Blogging, Public Relations, SEO, copyright, plagiarism | 7 Comments

Blogging is about writing. That is a fact. You can video blog, podcast, and do all kinds of fun things with your blog, but it is the writing that makes or breaks a blog. What you say in the blog posts, descriptions of visual and audio elements, and what words you offer search engines for […]

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 […]

How Spam-Friendly is Your Niche?

March 17, 2008 | Filed Under Blogging, Comments, Features, Legal, Spam, Splogs, Trackbacks, copyright, plagiarism | 7 Comments

No one wants to attract spammers to their site. They scrape content, post junk comments and turn search engines off to your site.
Unfortunately, the bitter truth is that all blogs, regardless of age, topic and readership, will attract at least some attention from the purveyors of junk. That is a simple byproduct of having […]

Breaking Trust: How Not To Link to a Plagiarist

March 4, 2008 | Filed Under Blogging, Editorial, Ethics, Features, Guides and Tutorials, Legal, copyright, plagiarism | 13 Comments

I haven’t been through my incoming link statistics in a while, so I was delighted to find an article highlighting “15 Amazing Women in Blogging.”
I learned a big lesson with that one incoming link. One you need to learn, too.
It was posted on a blog subtitled An Iranian Woman Bloggerm which added a thrill when […]

How Creative Commons Can Protect You

March 3, 2008 | Filed Under Content Scraping, Features, Legal, copyright, plagiarism | 2 Comments

The majority of bloggers that choose a Creative Commons License do so for altruistic reasons. They want to encourage sharing of their work, within certain guidelines, and willingly sacrifice some of their exclusive rights to allow the rest of the world access to their content.
But what most Creative Commons users don’t realize is that, by […]

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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 | Leave a 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 […]

SocialMediaPop Mashes Social Media Sites
May 16, 2008 | By Thord Daniel Hedengren | Leave a Comment

Ryan Caldwell, of Performancing fame, had an idea:
Why not build a tool that only shows the stories that went popular on at least two social voting sites?
The result, via Suffolk Software, is SocialMediaPop. Cool project, in beta for now. I wonder what the social media sites think of services like this?
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