Re: blogs and scrapers

**D* G* <d*@kos.net>**

Lois

First - the site in question is in the middle of a major rebuilding.   
He's starting to take the headlines only rather than the entire  
article.  And that's (as Chris explained) likely OK.   I have no  
problem with anybody doing that  - well, at least I don't worry when  
they do it as there's nothing I can do.  Life's too short to worry  
when any link goes directly back to my site. :-)  But as near as i can  
tell, my stuff is totally down.  But the person won't take your  
content down unless you ask - and I think the site will look a lot  
different in another day or two.  We'll see.  If I were guessing, I'd  
say they're going to a typical feed headline-scraper site.

As for full versus part feeds.  There may indeed be a tech reason why  
the content is treated differently - I'm sure Chris would have a  
better sense of that than I do and I bow to his tech-expertise on this  
one.   However,   I do a full feed for two basic reasons.  I - I like  
to read full feeds on my reader.  2 - the research is clear that so do  
most folks and subscriptions/site visits go up when you do.  So from a  
writer's-marketing perspective - full feeds work better.

All the best

Doug

Douglas Green
Online Garden Publishing
Blog:  http://blog.douggreensgarden.com
Home: http://www.simplegiftsfarm.com

On 9-Feb-08, at 11:37 AM, loisdan@juno.com wrote:

> I'm curious whether the discrepancy between what this site does with  
> my
> blog vs. some others' such as yours is that I have my site feed set to
> short; meaning that the RSS or Atom feeds only get the first 255
> characters. Would changing this setting on your blog/website help you?
> [Disclaimer: I know next to nothing about this stuff :-) ]
>
> Regards,
> Lois
> Visit http://loisdevries.blogspot.com
>
> On Sat, 9 Feb 2008 10:33:46 -0600 Douglas Green <dgreen@kos.net>  
> writes:
>> They're back!!!  With a disclaimer.  So I've given them 48 hours to
>>
>> remove my stuff and then I fire dmca with both the isp and google.
>>
>> Here's the list and disclaimer they've published.  Note that full
>> feed
>> publishing is copyright violation while snippets (as Chris pointed
>>
>> out) are not likely.
>>
>> http://gardening-blogs.emoondo.com/sitemap
>>
>> Have a good day folks.   :-)   And pass the word along yet again.
>>
>> Doug
>>
>> Douglas Green
>> Online Garden Publishing
>> Blog:  http://blog.douggreensgarden.com
>> Home: http://www.simplegiftsfarm.com
>>
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