Archive for the ‘Articles’ Category

Search Engines: Three to Beware

By Jonathan Bailey • Apr 17th, 2008 • Category: Articles, DMCA, Legal Issues

Shyftr is not the first site to make use of your full feed or offer commenting as part of a user experience. Here are three other sites that you may want to take a look at.



Fragmented Conversations and Blogging

By Jonathan Bailey • Apr 16th, 2008 • Category: Articles, Legal Issues, Prevention

The notion of fragmented conversations has drawn a lot of attention over the past few weeks. However, what are the real implications solutions to the problem?



New Trend: Scraping Via Email

By Jonathan Bailey • Apr 15th, 2008 • Category: Articles, Prevention

Spammers are nothing if not clever and a new technique to scrape posts could cause headaches for bloggers as it thwarts many of the traditional means of shutting down the scrapers.



Housekeeping: New Hosting

By Jonathan Bailey • Apr 14th, 2008 • Category: Articles, Housekeeping

If you can read this, then you’re probably looking at PlagiarismToday on its new, albeit temporary, home. I’m currently upgrading and expanding the hosting to make it faster and more reliable.



Weekend Linkroll - 04-12-08

By Jonathan Bailey • Apr 12th, 2008 • Category: Articles, Linkblog

It’s been another wild week for copyright news. The Village People attempt to compete for the dumbest DMCA notice ever, Demonoid comes back and the debate over net filtering gets hotters than ever.



GumGum: Simple Image Licensing

By Jonathan Bailey • Apr 11th, 2008 • Category: Articles

Creative Commons is great for many kinds of images, but there are some photos that one practically has to license. For those, GumGum has an easy and cheap solution that may work well for many bloggers.



Video: WordCamp Dallas Presentation

By Jonathan Bailey • Apr 10th, 2008 • Category: Articles, Videos

For those who were not able to attend WordCamp Dallas but would like to see my session from the event, my video is up and available for anyone interested in the topic of content theft to view.



PhotoDropper: Creative Commons Made Easy

By Jonathan Bailey • Apr 9th, 2008 • Category: Articles

One of the greatest challenges in using Creative Commons works is giving a proper attribution in the correct format. However, a new WordPress plugin handles that and also helps you format the images for you blog and locate the right photo.



Workfriendly: Yet Another Issue

By Jonathan Bailey • Apr 8th, 2008 • Category: Articles, Personal Experiences, Prevention

Workfriendly, a script that masks the Web to look like an open Microsoft Word document, may have been created as a joke, but it continues to create serious problems for the Webmasters that it scrapes.



Weekend Linkroll 04-05-08

By Jonathan Bailey • Apr 5th, 2008 • Category: Articles, Linkblog

It’s been a frantic week for copyright news major upheavals in the RIAA’s lawsuit escapade and ISPs standing up to big copyright. This is a week you don’t want to miss.