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

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 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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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, 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 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.