Yesterday, the makers of the controversial Pay Per Post service launched a new tool designed to make blog reading faster, RSS Brief.
The idea is that the service takes long posts, like what you might expect here on Plagiarism Today, and condenses them down into a few short sentences.
Though the service sounds convenient and [...]

In a recent post on TechCrunch, Duncan Riley sparked a controversy by saying that the blogs created by Google Reader’s linkblog feature “already break copyright and in a small way undermine blogs and content creators.”
That statement resulted in a flurry of comments with individuals falling on both sides of the debate. The debate then quickly [...]

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 [...]

Feed autodiscovery is one of the most powerful tools available for encouraging feed usage and subscription. Theoretically at least, by giving browsers and feed readers an easy way to identify the feed and users an intuitive way to subscribe to it, more people will take advantage of it.
However, when a reader of this site had [...]

When Sallie Goetsch received a Google Alert for her name, she was originally excited. It meant, most likely, that one of her free Web articles had been picked up and used by another site.
However, when she followed the link, she found something else. Rather than a properly attributed article, complete with bio and proper [...]

I often get asked by reporters and bloggers alike exactly how bad scraping is on the Web. I discuss my past experiments on the topic and how, depending on your keywords, suspicious traffic starts showing up with the first post.
However, as I was searching for information on IE7 security flaws for another site I’m [...]

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, [...]

If reading this site and enduring the onslaught of content theft, plagiarism and scraping is making you think about packing up and shutting down your site, you might want to think again.
These days, even death does not put an end to content theft. It merely opens up new avenues for it.
As a recent article on [...]

As the issue of plagiarism and content theft draws more and more attention on the web, in particular among bloggers, several Webmasters are posting their experiences with content theft and some intrepid writers are producing their own guides for fighting content theft on the Web.
Though the attention to this issue is welcome, many of these [...]

In a pair of previous posts I lauded Google’s progress in the war on Spam on its Blogspot service. Though my intuition was confirmed, at least somewhat, by Google itself, it appears I might have spoken too soon.
I recently ran across this link on the social news site Reddit. It is a submissions listing for [...]