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Re: blogs and scrapers


Sure - just finished a take-down notice this week.  It happens.

Doug

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



On 26-Jan-08, at 7:00 PM, Nancy Szerlag wrote:

> So Doug - have you been scraped?
>
> Nancy Szerlag
> On Jan 25, 2008, at 10:06 AM, Douglas Green wrote:
>
>> A while ago in the "blogging world", the topic of "scrapers" came up.
>> A bunch of blogs went to part feeds as a result of this in what I
>> think was a misguided sense that they could "protect" their content  
>> by
>> doing so.   (for the uninitiated, "scraping" is where automated
>> software links into your blog feed and puts the content of that feed
>> up on another website - it "scrapes" the content from your site and
>> puts it on its own.)
>>
>>
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