BackType, a new comment search engine, has raised the ire of many bloggers for its practice of scraping and republishing full comments. But what is the service about and how can it resolve these issues?

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?

It has been a busy week here at Plagiarism Today and I’m proud to announce a new conference that I’ll be speaking at as well as several tweaks and changes to the site itself.

When bloggers and Webmasters look at the issue of RSS scraping, they typically think solely about their main RSS feed. It is the feed that contains their posts, the one that is most subscribed to and the one most prominently displayed.
When one thinks of “subscribing” to a site, most think exclusively about the main feed.
However, [...]

I’ve added a new feature to the side bar of this site, a Top Commentators list. The list, which counts all comments that a person has made over the past 90 days gives credit and a link to the top ten commentators during that time.
Currently, Jeremy Steele and Patrick are tied for first at ten [...]