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FeedEntryHeader - Stop Scrapers?

09.Dec.07 | 2 Comments

One of my largest pet peeves has to be feed scraping. It is a habit lower life forms have of scraping my RSS into their blogs and presenting it as their own content.
That drives me nuts. Not that I have an issue with sharing what I write — this is all under the Creative Commons [...]

A New Content Thief

26.Aug.07 | 8 Comments

Take a look at “Beyond Web Logs” (http://www.beyondweblogs.com/). That site is just littered with old posts of mine — and hotlinked images.
For instance: http://www.beyondweblogs.com/post/A-very-quick-look-at-Mabber.aspx
Now, my Creative Commons license does indeed allow re-use of my content — but that content must be properly attributed! I hate this kind of outright theft. Neither my name nor [...]

SyncGeeks is my latest big fan

24.Sep.06 | 4 Comments

I love it when my fans like me so much they feel the urge to borrow my articles. I don’t love it so much when they forget to attribute my articles to me. In fact, right now, Syncgeeks.com is upsetting me. Check these out:
http://www.syncgeeks.com/2006/09/21/programming-is-like-sex/
http://www.syncgeeks.com/2006/09/23/a-different-take-on-asides/
http://www.syncgeeks.com/2006/09/23/blinklist-space-for-wordpress-links/
http://www.syncgeeks.com/2006/09/22/tag-angst/
Actually, holy crap. I have my own category [...]

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