Posts Tagged ‘Scraping’

Fav.Or.It Site Shuts Down

By Jonathan Bailey • Aug 7th, 2009 • Category: Articles, News

Famous content aggregator Fav.or.it is closed, much to the relief of at least some in the blogging community.



Spinning, Spamming and Twitter

By Jonathan Bailey • Jun 16th, 2009 • Category: Articles

Twitter spams for a new set of “Spinning” have been popping up all over the Web. They claim to help keep your content safe, but is it all just spin.



Amazon’s Kindle Lets Anyone Sell Your Content

By Jonathan Bailey • May 15th, 2009 • Category: Articles, News, Products

Amazon has opened up its Kindle to blogs but it comes with a major security hole that makes it possible for anyone to sell any blog, including your own.



Excerpts, Scraping and Fair Use

By Jonathan Bailey • Mar 3rd, 2009 • Category: Articles, Punditry

A recent article on the New York Times site drew the attention of the Web to excerpting and the difficulty defining good vs. bad use. It’s a touchy issue with no easy answers.



Rise of the Twitter Scrapers

By Jonathan Bailey • Feb 13th, 2009 • Category: Articles, News

With every new medium comes an attempt to game it, usually using other people’s work. Twitter is no exception but it does provide a series of new challenges and questions.



Is Lijit Creating Spam Blogs?

By Jonathan Bailey • Feb 12th, 2009 • Category: Articles, Products

A new service by Lijit has raised eyebrows in the content community. Does their new aggregation service provide a new solution for content licensing or just push the boundaries of what is spam?



Attributor Analyzes TrueAudience

By Jonathan Bailey • Nov 19th, 2008 • Category: Articles, News

A recent study by content tracking service Attributor has found that, for many publishers, their audience off their site completely dwarfs the pageviews they can count.



The Dangers of Proxying

By Jonathan Bailey • Sep 17th, 2008 • Category: Articles, Legal Issues, Prevention

Though proxying is by no means a new technology, new services have pushed the technology to the forefront of the content theft debate and forced Webmasters to deal with a new method of Web site “copying”.



BackType: Republishing Comments

By Jonathan Bailey • Sep 11th, 2008 • Category: Articles, News, Uncategorized

BackType, a new comment search engine, has raised the ire of many bloggers for its practice of scraping and republishing full comments. But what is the service about and how can it resolve these issues?



Feedblitz: An Accidental Spam Blogger

By Jonathan Bailey • Aug 6th, 2008 • Category: Articles, News, Products

Feedblitz has come under fire for its new “private label domain” service. However, even as the relatively benign service attracts a great deal of attention, a fatal flaw in the Feedblitz site turns Feedblitz into one of the most effective spam bloggers to date.