Archive for the ‘Prevention’ Category

RightsAgent: Total Rights Management

By Jonathan Bailey • Jan 17th, 2008 • Category: Articles, Legal Issues, Prevention, Products

RightsAgent is a new system designed to help you license your content to the world, both for profit and non-profit purposes. But is the system worth entrusting your content to?



Two New Anti-Scraping WordPress Plugins

By Jonathan Bailey • Jan 16th, 2008 • Category: Articles, Prevention, Products

Two new WordPress plugins were released in the past few weeks. Both promise to help defend against scraping but how much security do they actually provide?



Update: PhotoBucket Petition Takes Off

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

The petition against PhotoBucket has been growing at a rapid pace. Here’s a discussion as to what is happening and what the immediate future plans are.



Artists Express Concern Over PhotoBucket

By Jonathan Bailey • Jan 15th, 2008 • Category: Articles, DMCA, Legal Issues, News, Prevention

Artists and photographers, tired of rampant infringement of their work on PhotoBucket, are circulating a petition to push the service to change some of its practices.



A Dirty Spam Trick

By Jonathan Bailey • Jan 7th, 2008 • Category: Articles, Prevention

Earlier today, I ran across a post on Digg that referenced a blog readability test.
The idea behind the test is simple. You type in the URL of your blog or site and it tells you the approximate reading level required to understand it. It got me curious about the readibility of this site so I [...]



Video: Jason Calacanis on Internet Pollution

By Jonathan Bailey • Dec 28th, 2007 • Category: Articles, DMCA, Legal Issues, Prevention, Punditry

A presentation by Jason Calacanis at LeWeb3 earlier this month drew attention the problem of Web “pollution” as a threat to the Internet itself.
According to Calacanis, Usenet is an case study on what is currently happening to the Web. In his speech, he stated that Usenet, ten to fifteen years ago, was a very [...]



Flickr Misses an Opportunity

By Jonathan Bailey • Dec 14th, 2007 • Category: Articles, News, Prevention

Yesterday, Yahoo!’s photo-sharing service Flickr announced that they were now offering their pro users advanced statistics to help them track their photos.
The announcement has been largely well-received and the addition of statistics was one of the most-requested features according to Flickr.
However, those who are interested in using the new tool to track where their [...]



Protecting Content by Using Static Pages

By Jonathan Bailey • Dec 12th, 2007 • Category: Articles, Prevention, Punditry

In a recent interview on b-l-o-g-g-e-r.com, Dennis de Bernardy commented on the issue of content theft and spam blogs
Bernardy, the creator of Semilogic Pro, which is a pack of themes and plugins for WordPress targeted at business users, said that the problem was due to RSS feeds and recommended what many would call drastic action.
There [...]



RSS in the Mainstream Media

By Jonathan Bailey • Dec 6th, 2007 • Category: Articles, Prevention, Punditry

For all intents and purposes, RSS is still an extremely new technology. Bloggers, often viewed as being on the cutting edge of such things, are still struggling to determine how to best use the tool to distribute their works.
But as hot as the debate is among bloggers, it is even more heated in the [...]



The FeedBurner Question

By Jonathan Bailey • Dec 5th, 2007 • Category: Articles, Prevention, Products

When I started Plagiarism Today approximately two and a half years ago, FeedBurner seemed like a Godsend. Not only was it a powerful way to track your feed’s usage, but it was also an easy way to customize the feed’s features, all while ensuring compatibility across the board.
FeedBurner took the complicated black art of feed [...]