Have a look at this. Someone is taking my RSS feed and those of others I know and aggregating them on another site and sticking up advertising. How odd. I don't know if I feel good about this or bad. I certainly have not been asked permission or offered a share of the likely tiny revenue stream from the Google ads. Reminds me of all the bother in the mid-90's about deep linking, focusing on two news web sites on the Shetlands. Whose stuff is this that I do? I understand it to be mine under the Copyright Act. To the credit of the aggregator, there is no doubt that the attributation to me is there. But does someone else get the chump change for my writing that ought to buy me that Friday Guinness?
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- Articles for the sister station, A Good Beer Blog.
- Pick any day's tunes as heard on CBC Ottawa's All in a Day hosted by my personal emailing buddy, Brent Bambury. You won't find a better music selection on radio anywhere - certainly not on the deeply dowdy CBC.
- Another plume catches my eye.
- Stuff less serious than Stuff.
- From Jan to March 2006, I tried a group humour blog with others on the subject of Canadian politics. It did not last but the posts were worth keeping. #16 was banned. There were no comments. It was at www.shadowcabinet.ca.
- Some writings and other junk of little real interest unless you like law or are a Crow.
- A display of hideous graphics focused on the goal of figuring out where the smokestack I can see to the south is sitting.
Comments
Alan - January 30, 2004 2:55 pm
Hey look: its just a guy in Pennsylvania!
Alan - January 30, 2004 3:03 pm
It also is in breach of the Creative Commons license that others in the list use as that does not allow commercial expropriation of the work.
David - January 30, 2004 4:23 pm
One of the (many) reasons I don't believe in putting the content of posts in RSS feeds!
Alan - January 30, 2004 4:39 pm
I just had a very good discussion with another blogger on IM about whether this is good or bad. He thought it was great and an interesting initiative. I am not strongly one way or another but in my gut lean asking towards permission and getting consent. But is that good enough in this media. Maybe this is just like handing around a copy of a magazine bought by one but read by eight. If I take content out of the RSS, then aggregator reader types get irritated.<p>I do think this is different that search engines, updating blog rolls, group blogs and personal aggregating readers.
Alan - January 30, 2004 4:39 pm
It is also like selling a magazine at a yard sale.
Wayne - January 31, 2004 7:50 am
How did you get on an "Islander" feed? :)
Alan - January 31, 2004 8:48 am
Ha ha! I do and you don't! I think the guy just grabbed all the feeds coming out of the silverorange computers.
Craig - January 31, 2004 8:49 am
Awe..the big lovable guy is really an Islander at heart.
Alan - January 31, 2004 8:55 am
There's a worthwhile certification - some hack in Penn labels me and you get all confused.