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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

To update my previous story on Six Apart. I received a call this afternoon from Jane Anderson of Six Apart. They are working on addressing the copyright issues and are discussing what action to take at this time. They’ve promised to be in touch with me over the coming days and weeks to keep me [...]

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Six Apart was one of the first rock stars of the blogging world. Propelled to fame on the back of its Movable Type blogging platform, it quickly became one of the most recognized names in the blogging world.
Though Movable Type has largely been replaced by newer blogging applications, including [...]