Syndication

A brief note on “syndication” (also known as “finding my articles on other sites”). This could also be considered a follow-up to yesterday’s post.

First off, I’m all for syndication. I love to see my articles elsewhere. That’s part of the reason I signed up for the BlogBurst service (I have their little chicklet over in the left side-bar). It’s also the reason I offer full RSS feeds instead of the short excerpts.

Why am I for it? Well vanity is certainly part of it! I get a kick out of following links and finding one of my posts at a newspaper’s web site (as an example). And the traffic boosts are pretty nice too. I’m waaaaay out on the long tail, but I still like to see my traffic go up. Helps me think that maybe someday ads will pay to keep this hobby online. All that and it just seems, to me, to be the right thing to do.

That being said, I hate when I don’t get credit for what I wrote. Want to use my stuff? Go nuts! But look over that Creative Commons link in my sidebar as well. Yes, you are free to copy and display my articles. In return, you’ll attribute them to me. And for me, that means a link to the original article on my site. If that’s impossible, then a link back to the blog’s homepage will probably work. Putting “Solo Technology” on the article with no link just isn’t going to get the job done.

But hey, I still think that’s pretty liberal, right?

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