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?

With so many new search engines, directories and social news sites repurposing the full feed, often against the will of bloggers, perhaps it is time to have a central repository of this information. Leave a comment and have your voice heard on this matter.

Shyftr is not the first site to make use of your full feed or offer commenting as part of a user experience. Here are three other sites that you may want to take a look at.

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.

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.

Spam is a growing problem on the Web and it is no longer as centralized as it once was. Spam is spreading and services once thought to be “safe” are now being inundated with junk content. However, fighting this broader push by the spammers is not going to be easy for Webmasters or hosts.

Sometimes it is far too easy for a legitimate site to be mistaken for a spam blog. However, that need not be a problem if you follow these simple steps.

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?

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.
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Sometimes the biggest challenge to protecting your copyright is proving the work is yours in the first place. Though the United States Copyright Office provides the only official service, that makes available additional legal remedies, it is both pricey and slow, making it a waste for anyone who anyone who isn’t actively looking to go [...]