Comments on: Reverse Content Theft: Reflections on Scoble-gate http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2008/01/04/reverse-content-theft-reflections-on-scoble-gate/ Content Theft, Plagiarism, Copyright Infringement Mon, 13 Feb 2012 07:59:41 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2008/01/04/reverse-content-theft-reflections-on-scoble-gate/comment-page-1/#comment-131194 Anonymous Sat, 25 Jul 2009 13:30:00 +0000 http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2008/01/04/reverse-content-theft-reflections-on-scoble-gate/#comment-131194 I liked all the tips offered. But personally I find them not complete enough to help a person modify his page content. If you really want to perfectly know the ABCs of webdesign, you can find some books here: <a href="http://www.picktorrent.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.picktorrent.com</a>. Read them precisely and then get back to managing your blog content. Believe me, Netcipia is worth it! I liked all the tips offered. But personally I find them not complete enough to help a person modify his page content. If you really want to perfectly know the ABCs of webdesign, you can find some books here: http://www.picktorrent.com. Read them precisely and then get back to managing your blog content. Believe me, Netcipia is worth it!

]]> By: vbob http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2008/01/04/reverse-content-theft-reflections-on-scoble-gate/comment-page-1/#comment-127032 vbob Sat, 25 Jul 2009 08:30:18 +0000 http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2008/01/04/reverse-content-theft-reflections-on-scoble-gate/#comment-127032 I liked all the tips offered. But personally I find them not complete enough to help a person modify his page content. If you really want to perfectly know the ABCs of webdesign, you can find some books here: <a href="http://www.picktorrent.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.picktorrent.com</a>. Read them precisely and then get back to managing your blog content. Believe me, Netcipia is worth it! I liked all the tips offered. But personally I find them not complete enough to help a person modify his page content. If you really want to perfectly know the ABCs of webdesign, you can find some books here: http://www.picktorrent.com. Read them precisely and then get back to managing your blog content. Believe me, Netcipia is worth it!

]]> By: Magali http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2008/01/04/reverse-content-theft-reflections-on-scoble-gate/comment-page-1/#comment-131717 Magali Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:28:00 +0000 http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2008/01/04/reverse-content-theft-reflections-on-scoble-gate/#comment-131717 So what? Facebook is a 'no follow' site, so to speak. What else is new? All the big social sites want you to create content for their use without so much as a lousy backlink. Welcome to my world Scoble. So what? Facebook is a ‘no follow’ site, so to speak. What else is new? All the big social sites want you to create content for their use without so much as a lousy backlink. Welcome to my world Scoble.

]]> By: Recording Studio http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2008/01/04/reverse-content-theft-reflections-on-scoble-gate/comment-page-1/#comment-120981 Recording Studio Sat, 05 Jan 2008 12:34:12 +0000 http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2008/01/04/reverse-content-theft-reflections-on-scoble-gate/#comment-120981 Please correct me if I am wrong. I am looking at it from a slightly different angle, that of protecting my identity from possible theft or sale etc. From now on, the sensible thing for me to do when I register for a membership for a social net work, I can ask for a guarantee that in case I leave the network, my personal details will be deleted from their data base. As things stand today, this is not possible. I tried by contacting the site administrator of a site before registering and I got no response despite three reminders. After that experience, I have simply stopped registering in any net work, no matter who invites me and I tell the person who invites me, why I do this. This has been going on now for two months! Am I doing the right thing? Please correct me if I am wrong. I am looking at it from a slightly different angle, that of protecting my identity from possible theft or sale etc. From now on, the sensible thing for me to do when I register for a membership for a social net work, I can ask for a guarantee that in case I leave the network, my personal details will be deleted from their data base. As things stand today, this is not possible. I tried by contacting the site administrator of a site before registering and I got no response despite three reminders. After that experience, I have simply stopped registering in any net work, no matter who invites me and I tell the person who invites me, why I do this. This has been going on now for two months! Am I doing the right thing?

]]> By: JB http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2008/01/04/reverse-content-theft-reflections-on-scoble-gate/comment-page-1/#comment-73906 JB Sat, 05 Jan 2008 12:07:58 +0000 http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2008/01/04/reverse-content-theft-reflections-on-scoble-gate/#comment-73906 Cybele: I hadn't seen that article, looks like I'm even more late to this party than I thought. However, you have a very good point. Even though some sites and services are better than others, none are perfect. It is a situation where, without 100% portability, it isn't much better. Of course, there is always some element of lock in. If you move to a new service, you lose your URL and your identity there, that can not be helped, unless you use paid hosting, but there is a swath of incomplete solutions in this area that don't provide much more comfort for someone seeking to move. This is an interesting problem. Marilyn: Glad you enjoyed it! Blue: That is a very frustrating limitation with LJ. I didn't realize that it was so bad. I'm going to have to update this article later. Given that there are at least a dozen services based upon the LJ backend, insanejournal, greatestjournal, deadjournal, etc., portability was almost a given. Too bad that is not the case. It seems rather strange to me that WP offers the ability to reimport LJ when its sister sites do not. Seems to me to be a gaping hole. Also, good point on backing up content. Though it doesn't directly apply to this column, I was running an Ezboard years ago (let me emphasize the "years ago" part there) and they suffered a severe crash and lost a great deal of our data. We recovered, slowly, but we had no chance to back up and restore our own data. It is a pity. I have WP doing nightly backups of my database here and emailing them to me (Gmail hates me) so I should be relatively ready for any disaster that should strike (knock on wood). Hopefully that won't be a problem but you are right, I wish I could do that with my other services as well... Cybele:

I hadn't seen that article, looks like I'm even more late to this party than I thought.

However, you have a very good point. Even though some sites and services are better than others, none are perfect. It is a situation where, without 100% portability, it isn't much better.

Of course, there is always some element of lock in. If you move to a new service, you lose your URL and your identity there, that can not be helped, unless you use paid hosting, but there is a swath of incomplete solutions in this area that don't provide much more comfort for someone seeking to move.

This is an interesting problem.

Marilyn:

Glad you enjoyed it!

Blue:

That is a very frustrating limitation with LJ. I didn't realize that it was so bad. I'm going to have to update this article later.

Given that there are at least a dozen services based upon the LJ backend, insanejournal, greatestjournal, deadjournal, etc., portability was almost a given. Too bad that is not the case.

It seems rather strange to me that WP offers the ability to reimport LJ when its sister sites do not. Seems to me to be a gaping hole.

Also, good point on backing up content. Though it doesn't directly apply to this column, I was running an Ezboard years ago (let me emphasize the "years ago" part there) and they suffered a severe crash and lost a great deal of our data.

We recovered, slowly, but we had no chance to back up and restore our own data. It is a pity. I have WP doing nightly backups of my database here and emailing them to me (Gmail hates me) so I should be relatively ready for any disaster that should strike (knock on wood).

Hopefully that won't be a problem but you are right, I wish I could do that with my other services as well…

]]> By: JB http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2008/01/04/reverse-content-theft-reflections-on-scoble-gate/comment-page-1/#comment-133108 JB Sat, 05 Jan 2008 12:07:58 +0000 http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2008/01/04/reverse-content-theft-reflections-on-scoble-gate/#comment-133108 Cybele: I hadn't seen that article, looks like I'm even more late to this party than I thought.However, you have a very good point. Even though some sites and services are better than others, none are perfect. It is a situation where, without 100% portability, it isn't much better.Of course, there is always some element of lock in. If you move to a new service, you lose your URL and your identity there, that can not be helped, unless you use paid hosting, but there is a swath of incomplete solutions in this area that don't provide much more comfort for someone seeking to move. This is an interesting problem.Marilyn:Glad you enjoyed it!Blue: That is a very frustrating limitation with LJ. I didn't realize that it was so bad. I'm going to have to update this article later. Given that there are at least a dozen services based upon the LJ backend, insanejournal, greatestjournal, deadjournal, etc., portability was almost a given. Too bad that is not the case.It seems rather strange to me that WP offers the ability to reimport LJ when its sister sites do not. Seems to me to be a gaping hole.Also, good point on backing up content. Though it doesn't directly apply to this column, I was running an Ezboard years ago (let me emphasize the "years ago" part there) and they suffered a severe crash and lost a great deal of our data.We recovered, slowly, but we had no chance to back up and restore our own data. It is a pity. I have WP doing nightly backups of my database here and emailing them to me (Gmail hates me) so I should be relatively ready for any disaster that should strike (knock on wood).Hopefully that won't be a problem but you are right, I wish I could do that with my other services as well... Cybele: I hadn't seen that article, looks like I'm even more late to this party than I thought.However, you have a very good point. Even though some sites and services are better than others, none are perfect. It is a situation where, without 100% portability, it isn't much better.Of course, there is always some element of lock in. If you move to a new service, you lose your URL and your identity there, that can not be helped, unless you use paid hosting, but there is a swath of incomplete solutions in this area that don't provide much more comfort for someone seeking to move. This is an interesting problem.Marilyn:Glad you enjoyed it!Blue: That is a very frustrating limitation with LJ. I didn't realize that it was so bad. I'm going to have to update this article later. Given that there are at least a dozen services based upon the LJ backend, insanejournal, greatestjournal, deadjournal, etc., portability was almost a given. Too bad that is not the case.It seems rather strange to me that WP offers the ability to reimport LJ when its sister sites do not. Seems to me to be a gaping hole.Also, good point on backing up content. Though it doesn't directly apply to this column, I was running an Ezboard years ago (let me emphasize the "years ago" part there) and they suffered a severe crash and lost a great deal of our data.We recovered, slowly, but we had no chance to back up and restore our own data. It is a pity. I have WP doing nightly backups of my database here and emailing them to me (Gmail hates me) so I should be relatively ready for any disaster that should strike (knock on wood).Hopefully that won't be a problem but you are right, I wish I could do that with my other services as well…

]]> By: Blue http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2008/01/04/reverse-content-theft-reflections-on-scoble-gate/comment-page-1/#comment-73893 Blue Sat, 05 Jan 2008 11:10:26 +0000 http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2008/01/04/reverse-content-theft-reflections-on-scoble-gate/#comment-73893 Interesing article. I had a Livejournal for several years and when I migrated to Wordpress I naturally did not want to lose all that history. Importing the entries themselves to WP was easy enough but you're quite right; comments and images (also things like layout, links lists etc) cannot be exported and have to be re-created by hand. Ironically you cannot re-import a Livejournal export into another Livejournal or similar service (ie; InsaneJournal). There is a tool called LJ-Archive which will backup posts AND comments but you can't upload them anywhere else: they're stuck on your HD. There's also the issue of backing up content; if you're with a host that doesn't allow easy export you can have no backup, so if their servers crash or the host goes out of business, your content is irretrievably lost. Interesing article. I had a Livejournal for several years and when I migrated to WordPress I naturally did not want to lose all that history. Importing the entries themselves to WP was easy enough but you're quite right; comments and images (also things like layout, links lists etc) cannot be exported and have to be re-created by hand. Ironically you cannot re-import a Livejournal export into another Livejournal or similar service (ie; InsaneJournal). There is a tool called LJ-Archive which will backup posts AND comments but you can't upload them anywhere else: they're stuck on your HD.

There's also the issue of backing up content; if you're with a host that doesn't allow easy export you can have no backup, so if their servers crash or the host goes out of business, your content is irretrievably lost.

]]> By: Blue http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2008/01/04/reverse-content-theft-reflections-on-scoble-gate/comment-page-1/#comment-132947 Blue Sat, 05 Jan 2008 11:10:26 +0000 http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2008/01/04/reverse-content-theft-reflections-on-scoble-gate/#comment-132947 Interesing article. I had a Livejournal for several years and when I migrated to Wordpress I naturally did not want to lose all that history. Importing the entries themselves to WP was easy enough but you're quite right; comments and images (also things like layout, links lists etc) cannot be exported and have to be re-created by hand. Ironically you cannot re-import a Livejournal export into another Livejournal or similar service (ie; InsaneJournal). There is a tool called LJ-Archive which will backup posts AND comments but you can't upload them anywhere else: they're stuck on your HD.There's also the issue of backing up content; if you're with a host that doesn't allow easy export you can have no backup, so if their servers crash or the host goes out of business, your content is irretrievably lost. Interesing article. I had a Livejournal for several years and when I migrated to WordPress I naturally did not want to lose all that history. Importing the entries themselves to WP was easy enough but you're quite right; comments and images (also things like layout, links lists etc) cannot be exported and have to be re-created by hand. Ironically you cannot re-import a Livejournal export into another Livejournal or similar service (ie; InsaneJournal). There is a tool called LJ-Archive which will backup posts AND comments but you can't upload them anywhere else: they're stuck on your HD.There's also the issue of backing up content; if you're with a host that doesn't allow easy export you can have no backup, so if their servers crash or the host goes out of business, your content is irretrievably lost.

]]> By: JB http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2008/01/04/reverse-content-theft-reflections-on-scoble-gate/comment-page-1/#comment-120983 JB Sat, 05 Jan 2008 11:07:58 +0000 http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2008/01/04/reverse-content-theft-reflections-on-scoble-gate/#comment-120983 Cybele: I hadn't seen that article, looks like I'm even more late to this party than I thought.However, you have a very good point. Even though some sites and services are better than others, none are perfect. It is a situation where, without 100% portability, it isn't much better.Of course, there is always some element of lock in. If you move to a new service, you lose your URL and your identity there, that can not be helped, unless you use paid hosting, but there is a swath of incomplete solutions in this area that don't provide much more comfort for someone seeking to move. This is an interesting problem.Marilyn:Glad you enjoyed it!Blue: That is a very frustrating limitation with LJ. I didn't realize that it was so bad. I'm going to have to update this article later. Given that there are at least a dozen services based upon the LJ backend, insanejournal, greatestjournal, deadjournal, etc., portability was almost a given. Too bad that is not the case.It seems rather strange to me that WP offers the ability to reimport LJ when its sister sites do not. Seems to me to be a gaping hole.Also, good point on backing up content. Though it doesn't directly apply to this column, I was running an Ezboard years ago (let me emphasize the "years ago" part there) and they suffered a severe crash and lost a great deal of our data.We recovered, slowly, but we had no chance to back up and restore our own data. It is a pity. I have WP doing nightly backups of my database here and emailing them to me (Gmail hates me) so I should be relatively ready for any disaster that should strike (knock on wood).Hopefully that won't be a problem but you are right, I wish I could do that with my other services as well... Cybele: I hadn't seen that article, looks like I'm even more late to this party than I thought.However, you have a very good point. Even though some sites and services are better than others, none are perfect. It is a situation where, without 100% portability, it isn't much better.Of course, there is always some element of lock in. If you move to a new service, you lose your URL and your identity there, that can not be helped, unless you use paid hosting, but there is a swath of incomplete solutions in this area that don't provide much more comfort for someone seeking to move. This is an interesting problem.Marilyn:Glad you enjoyed it!Blue: That is a very frustrating limitation with LJ. I didn't realize that it was so bad. I'm going to have to update this article later. Given that there are at least a dozen services based upon the LJ backend, insanejournal, greatestjournal, deadjournal, etc., portability was almost a given. Too bad that is not the case.It seems rather strange to me that WP offers the ability to reimport LJ when its sister sites do not. Seems to me to be a gaping hole.Also, good point on backing up content. Though it doesn't directly apply to this column, I was running an Ezboard years ago (let me emphasize the "years ago" part there) and they suffered a severe crash and lost a great deal of our data.We recovered, slowly, but we had no chance to back up and restore our own data. It is a pity. I have WP doing nightly backups of my database here and emailing them to me (Gmail hates me) so I should be relatively ready for any disaster that should strike (knock on wood).Hopefully that won't be a problem but you are right, I wish I could do that with my other services as well…

]]> By: Blue http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2008/01/04/reverse-content-theft-reflections-on-scoble-gate/comment-page-1/#comment-120982 Blue Sat, 05 Jan 2008 10:10:26 +0000 http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2008/01/04/reverse-content-theft-reflections-on-scoble-gate/#comment-120982 Interesing article. I had a Livejournal for several years and when I migrated to Wordpress I naturally did not want to lose all that history. Importing the entries themselves to WP was easy enough but you're quite right; comments and images (also things like layout, links lists etc) cannot be exported and have to be re-created by hand. Ironically you cannot re-import a Livejournal export into another Livejournal or similar service (ie; InsaneJournal). There is a tool called LJ-Archive which will backup posts AND comments but you can't upload them anywhere else: they're stuck on your HD.There's also the issue of backing up content; if you're with a host that doesn't allow easy export you can have no backup, so if their servers crash or the host goes out of business, your content is irretrievably lost. Interesing article. I had a Livejournal for several years and when I migrated to WordPress I naturally did not want to lose all that history. Importing the entries themselves to WP was easy enough but you're quite right; comments and images (also things like layout, links lists etc) cannot be exported and have to be re-created by hand. Ironically you cannot re-import a Livejournal export into another Livejournal or similar service (ie; InsaneJournal). There is a tool called LJ-Archive which will backup posts AND comments but you can't upload them anywhere else: they're stuck on your HD.There's also the issue of backing up content; if you're with a host that doesn't allow easy export you can have no backup, so if their servers crash or the host goes out of business, your content is irretrievably lost.

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