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 [...]

Having control over your own server can be a very powerful thing. It enables you to control who can access your site, how they visit it and what they can see.
Generally, however, that power is best left unused. For the most part, restricting people’s access to your site is a bad move. Though you can [...]

Yesterday I received an email from a representative at Google Blogspot. In my inquiry to him, I had asked whether or not Google was on a recent offensive against spam blogs, as I had speculated earlier this week.
As with most replies from Google about such matters, it was very vague and short on details. [...]

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As part of running this site, I subscribe to many different Technorati Watchlists. They help me keep up to date on the latest in content-theft and plagiarism-related issues.
Unfortunately, I see a great deal of spam blogs on these watchlists. What’s worse, it can be hard to tell, when looking at my RSS [...]

When FeedBurner announced that it was being bought out by Google last month, several things were immediately clear. 
First, it became clear that the owners of FeedBurner were going to receive a $100 million payday. Second, it was clear that Google would receive access to a berth of statistics about RSS feeds not previously available to [...]

Many sites, including this one, have expressed concerns that CC licenses may be encouraging or enabling scraping.
The problem seems to be straightforward. If a blog licenses all of their content under a CC license, then a scraper that follows the terms of said license is just as protected as a human copying one or [...]

With my recent move this story fell through the cracks a bit, but I wanted to let everyone know that the CopyFeed Wordpress Plugin, previously reported on here, has now been translated into English.
I took the time today and installed the plugin here on my feed and am, so far, loving it. It is a [...]

Rachel Radison is a New Orleans-based mortgage broker. After seeing the difficult home-buying climate in the city following Hurricane Katrina, she decided that she could help would-be buyers with her know how.
Radison, having heard about these new Web sites called “blogs” decided to create one herself and obtained a Wordpress.com account. However, her ignorance about [...]

A new Wordpress plugin by Frank Bueltge (in German) entitled Copyfeed is attempting to revolutionize the way Wordpress users protect their feed’s content.
The goal is to not simply help bloggers discover if and where their content is being scraped, but also give them information to help them track down the scraper and, when used in [...]