Posts Tagged ‘Wordpress’

Third Beta of New PT Layout

By Jonathan Bailey • Jan 11th, 2008 • Category: Articles, Housekeeping

This is the third and likely final version of the new PT layout. If you have a serious objection or concern, it is speak now or forever hold your peace!



Second Beta of the New PT Layout

By Jonathan Bailey • Jan 8th, 2008 • Category: Articles, Housekeeping

First off, thank you to everyone who has provided suggestions and ideas for improving the beta of the new Plagiarism Today. The feedback has been tremendously helpful.
Overall, most people have been very positive about the new look and several people have made very good suggestions about how to improve the site.
I’ve taken many of [...]



Beta of the New PT Layout

By Jonathan Bailey • Jan 7th, 2008 • Category: Articles, Housekeeping

I mentioned in my recent housekeeping post that I was looking at finding a new layout for Plagiarism Today.
Well, after pulling an all-nighter and working with a very good theme as a foundation, I’ve created a new look for Plagiarism Today that is ready for beta testing.
Click Here to visit the Plagiarism Today Test Site
I [...]



Reverse Content Theft: Reflections on Scoble-gate

By Jonathan Bailey • Jan 4th, 2008 • Category: Articles, News, Personal Experiences, Punditry

Robert Scoble kicked off a controversy when he was banned from Facebook for, according to him, running a script from a competing social network, Plaxo, designed to extract his Facebook account data and port it over to an account elsewhere.
The response was very divided. Many supported Scoble for what he did while others accused him [...]



Plagiarism Today on the WordPress Podcast

By Jonathan Bailey • Dec 12th, 2007 • Category: Podcast

If you enjoy my appearances on the Copyright 2.0 Show and are a WordPress user, you’ll likely want to take a look at the latest edition of WordPress Podcast where I come on as a new co-host and talk WordPress news with the regular host and podcasting superstar Charles Stricklin.
I had a great time [...]



Making the Switch: Going From Partial to Full Feeds

By Jonathan Bailey • Nov 28th, 2007 • Category: Articles, Prevention, Products

Content theft and RSS scraping is not going away. As more and more spammers get into the game and the tools they use improve in effectiveness, the problem is only going to get worse. Because of this, RSS feeds are going to remain vulnerable and bloggers will continue to seek out ways to protect them.
However, [...]



Is Trademark the New Copyright?

By Jonathan Bailey • Nov 15th, 2007 • Category: Articles, Legal Issues, Punditry

I want to be clear before I begin that this article is not an attack on open source, copyleft or any of the products listed. Rather, it is an exploration of the role trademark will play in the future of copyleft and intellectual property in general.
What do the following have in common: Ubuntu, Firefox, [...]



Numly Plugin Seeks New Maintainer

By Jonathan Bailey • Oct 24th, 2007 • Category: Articles, News, Products

If anyone out there is a PHP developer and is familiar with developing Wordpress plugins, the Numly Plugin would greatly appreciate your attention.
Originally created by Cal Evans and licensed under the GPL version 2.0. The plugin automatically submits posts created in Wordpress to be fingerprinted, have their ESN generated an then place the information in [...]



Housekeeping: Upgrade to Wordpress 2.3

By Jonathan Bailey • Sep 26th, 2007 • Category: Articles, Housekeeping

Just a quick note to let everyone know I spent part of the morning upgrading Plagiarism Today to Wordpress 2.3.
Please let me know if you see any problems with the site. I also upgraded about half a dozen plugins that I use so please alert me to any spontaneous combustions, plane crashes or other [...]



The DMCA on 7 Blog Hosts

By Jonathan Bailey • Sep 6th, 2007 • Category: Articles, DMCA, DMCA Seven, Legal Issues, Personal Experiences

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 [...]