Apr 06 2007
From Unknown to Peter Suber in 31 minutes
So content scraping is an interesting concept. Somehow I managed to go from “unknown” today:
club » Blog Archive » My First Guest Post! Open Coffee Club Sydney | penguinclubblogs.info/my-first-guest-post-open-coffee-club-sydney | IP: 75.126.199.186[…] unknown wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptI don’t know if you’ve heard about the Open Coffee Club, but it’s something that Saul Klein kicked off successfully in London and is now branching out across the world. The idea is to get people in the startup industry of a particular … […] — Apr 6, 4:22 PM — [ View Post ]
To being Peter Suber – in 31 minutes. Wow!
content source » My First Guest Post! Open Coffee Club Sydney | opencontent.info/my-first-guest-post-open-coffee-club-sydney | IP: 75.126.199.186[…] Peter Suber wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptI don’t know if you’ve heard about the Open Coffee Club, but it’s something that Saul Klein kicked off successfully in London and is now branching out across the world. The idea is to get people in the startup industry of a particular … […] — Apr 6, 4:53 PM — [ View Post ]
So I’m not sure if I should be flattered that the content is scrape worthy, happy that at least it’s a link back, or p.o.’d that my name is now Peter?
And on the topic of spam – I got spammed on Skype today!
Dear friends ,
Have you ever heard LIVE CHAT ? You could chat with your potential customers to develop your business relationship ! Welcome to use it !
Welcome to our website :www.53kf.com/en/index.html
YOU COULD CHAT WITH YOUR POTENTIAL CUSTOMER
Can’t get away from this stuff, can you? </rant>
4 Responses to “From Unknown to Peter Suber in 31 minutes”
Hi Meg, has that stuff be passing through the filters on Akismet?
It was passing through Spam Karma to start until I added some keyword filters.
The pain is they are doing legitimate trackbacks, and keep switching IPs
Hi Andy – nice to see you again
Akismet DID catch them, but I still review the spam as I get the occasional false positive. Fortunately not so much that I can’t do a quick glance. It just caught my eye as there were two in a row, both slightly different.
I just read your post on Technorati and splogging. Will be interesting to see the outcome!
Thinking about it, I might have mixed up the term. The sites tracking back to me would be “aggregating”, not “scraping” – it that correct? Or is it pretty much the same?
Whether what you do is for “the good of the public” or “eveil as hell” quite often is determined by how big your bank roll is.
As an example Technorati pick up your content, include excerpts, appear in search results and don’t provide a followable link to the original source.
There are lots of sites scraping my content (every post) that don’t issue me with a trackback.
There are sites that scrape my content that do issue trackbacks, but they are “niching” the content.
And there are those that scrape everything and trackback everything who always get blocked even if they are giving me a link.
Techmeme also aggregates content, and so does Megite – they are providing a legitimate service, and don’t seen to issue trackback… but they do on Alister’s blog for some reason – I think he is fixing that.
So we can say aggregation is by consent, scraping isn’t.
There are another couple of sites that do that for me too (republish full posts with a link back). They look like legitimate aggregators, but I’m SURE I never signed up. I don’t get a trackback, but I see the links in Technorati.
I tried subscribing to Megite, but it was just too many posts, and mostly a repeat of what I was already reading (and I hate seeing 100+ unread items). I do like Search Engine Land’s search cap – I can just pick what’s of interest.
Yes, I dare say Alister would get onto that smartly 😉