Posts Tagged ‘Digg’

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?



Offering Embedding to Prevent Plagiarism

By Jonathan Bailey • Mar 26th, 2008 • Category: Articles, Legal Issues, Prevention

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.



The DMCA on Social News Sites

By Jonathan Bailey • May 1st, 2007 • Category: Articles, DMCA, DMCA Seven, Legal Issues, Personal Experiences

Previously, I reported about how plagiarized content can create unique challeges on social news sites such as Digg and Reddit.
The article detailed a case involving the site Celebrity Hack, a celebrity gossip blog. The site had one of its articles, entitled “37 Famously Stupid Celebrity Quotes” submitted to Digg only to be buried for unknown [...]



Farked, BoingBoinged and More

By Jonathan Bailey • Apr 27th, 2007 • Category: Articles, Housekeeping

Yesterday was a very eventful day for this site. The article about Fark’s Copyright Policy made an appearance on the front page of Fark.com. Shortly after that, it was featured as an update to the BoingBoing article on the subject and even appeared on Wired.com’s Epicenter Blog.
Needless to say, traffic was extremely high yesterday and [...]



Social News: A New Plagiarism Concern

By Jonathan Bailey • Apr 19th, 2007 • Category: Articles, News, Prevention

If you need another reason to worry about content theft, consider the recent case involving the gossip blog Celebrity Hack.
About two weeks ago, an article on the site entitled “37 Famously Stupid Celebrity Quotes” was submitted to Digg. The story reached the front page briefly but was buried for unknown reasons.
Yesterday, a much lower-quality scraped [...]



Six Apart/Rojo: Now Spam Bloggers?

By Jonathan Bailey • Apr 3rd, 2007 • Category: Articles, Legal Issues, News

- Article Updated - See Below -

Six Apart was one of the first rock stars of the blogging world. Propelled to fame on the back of its Movable Type blogging platform, it quickly became one of the most recognized names in the blogging world.
Though Movable Type has largely been replaced by newer blogging applications, including [...]