I am seeking feedback on a question that has been raised: Are freely hosted Web blogs more likely to be scraped? Aside from their lack of plugins and tools, do they draw more attention from spammers?

Robert Scoble kicked off a controversy when he was banned from Facebook for, according to him, running a script from a competing social network, Plaxo, designed to extract his Facebook account data and port it over to an account elsewhere.
The response was very divided. Many supported Scoble for what he did while others accused him [...]

For the next chapter in the “DMCA Seven” series, we’re taking a look at one of the most common types of hosts out there, blog hosts.
Many of these hosts have been copyright headaches for Webmasters. They are prime targets for spam blogs and scrapers and some have played a huge role in rise of [...]

To update yesterday’s post about Wordpress.com being relatively free of spam blogs, I was contacted by Anil Dash, a Vice President at Six Apart, about their LiveJournal service.
According to Dash, the LiveJournal service, though having a larger user base than Wordpress.com and being equally free to use, is also relatively free of spam blogs. He [...]

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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Though Movable Type has largely been replaced by newer blogging applications, including [...]