Creative Commons recently started adding seals to some of their “more free” licenses indicating that they are compatible with free culture works, including Wikipedia and similar sites.
Category Archives: Prevention
Putting Your Feed on Probation
Darren Rowse of Problogger fame suggested a that new bloggers should start their sites out with a partial feed and switch to a full one once they have enough “trust” from Google. But could the system work?
Blogger CAPTCHA Cracked
Though it seemed as if Google was starting to make some headway into the spam blog problem on its Blogger service, the spammers seem to have turned the tide by cracking the CAPTCHA system and creating more accounts than ever before.
Identify Yourself, Protect Your Images
With the new orphan works bill set to be introduced, visual artists are looking for ways to identify themselves as the copyright holder and prevent their work from being “orphaned”. Here is one easy way to help with that.
A Warning for Email List Admins
As scraping via email has gained greater attention, the problem has brought the problem of spam blogs to the doorstep of mailing list administrators and group moderators. Learn how to protect your list.
Fragmented Conversations and Blogging
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
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.
Workfriendly: Yet Another Issue
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.
Branding Your Site and Your Content
Your site’s brand is not just an important tool in promotion, but a valuable weapon in reducing and mitigating against scraping and content theft.
Offering Embedding to Prevent Plagiarism
Embedding multimedia content is now a way of life on the Web. But while webmasters and bloggers love the ease of use, content creators are benefiting from less plagiarism and greater control.
Category Archives: Prevention
Creative Commons Adds Deed Seal
Creative Commons recently started adding seals to some of their “more free” licenses indicating that they are compatible with free culture works, including Wikipedia and similar sites.
Putting Your Feed on Probation
Darren Rowse of Problogger fame suggested a that new bloggers should start their sites out with a partial feed and switch to a full one once they have enough “trust” from Google. But could the system work?
Blogger CAPTCHA Cracked
Though it seemed as if Google was starting to make some headway into the spam blog problem on its Blogger service, the spammers seem to have turned the tide by cracking the CAPTCHA system and creating more accounts than ever before.
Identify Yourself, Protect Your Images
With the new orphan works bill set to be introduced, visual artists are looking for ways to identify themselves as the copyright holder and prevent their work from being “orphaned”. Here is one easy way to help with that.
A Warning for Email List Admins
As scraping via email has gained greater attention, the problem has brought the problem of spam blogs to the doorstep of mailing list administrators and group moderators. Learn how to protect your list.
Fragmented Conversations and Blogging
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
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.
Workfriendly: Yet Another Issue
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.
Branding Your Site and Your Content
Your site’s brand is not just an important tool in promotion, but a valuable weapon in reducing and mitigating against scraping and content theft.
Offering Embedding to Prevent Plagiarism
Embedding multimedia content is now a way of life on the Web. But while webmasters and bloggers love the ease of use, content creators are benefiting from less plagiarism and greater control.
-
-
This work by Jonathan Bailey is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
