I know our blogs get scraped. Mine does sometimes. Michael’s does too…and John is scraped by several scraper blogs. I’m looking into what we can do about it…since I find it annoying that someone takes our content.

I just got off the phone with Kris from Bryght/Raincity. He’s a passionate guy about building and sharing and collaborating. Those in the community buy in to that process as well.

We had a great chat, and I’m sure the work that’s done by UV was with the best of intentions.

I, and others, kinda just wanna be asked before our stuff is fully republished.

And that’s that.

i agree my tone has been less than cordial, that can happen when you’re trying to have a problem solved, and those who created the problem refuse to acknowledge the problem.

i stand by my impression of the phone conversation, i appreciate others have a different impression for knowing the man personally, i’m speaking to a 2 min conversation i had where my request was treated as frivolous and my opinion of the situation deemed ignorant.

THAT is what elevated my temper. the simple fact that there has been no admission of inappropriateness and that those who make the requests for removal are somehow ignorant to the system and a burden on their day.

it can be very frustrating.

“all site content copyright cyberbuzz media. no unauthorized use permitted.”

authorization guys.. that’s what you need AUTHORIZATION

I was very careful to set up my Creative Commons license in this way, so that other sites could use my content in exchange for full attribution with link. When the site linking to me outranks mine, and my words and pictures are exposed to that bigger audience (not to mention the SEO boost from the link), I consider it a win.

In this regard, I am not alone. It has become commonplace to license content in this way, and Richard is guilty of having missed the variation in Buzz’s license. It’s likely that this has happened more than once, but never with any malicious intent, I’m sure.

Buzz, I almost understand why you prefer to stunt the growth of your blog by remaining a human gatekeeper of the use of your content, and it’s easy to see how you could be so incensed by the misuse of your content, in violation of your license. But your tone throughout has been less than gallant. You could have handled this calmly and actually educated a lot of folks on fair use and started a lively debate.

But you dared to imply that Roland was anything but a gentleman, and I here I am on the record in his defense. While I wasn’t there, I’d bet my hat that his chuckle was meant to try to disarm you in his almost trademarked jovial way, and you misinterpreted it through your seething rage.

my main issue has been, and will remain, the negative option they use for the content. the refusal to properly explain their actions, or explain why they act without permission is what frustrated me to no end yesterday and continues to bother me today.

they may provide a useful and valuable service for those who need seo help, but they shouldnt plunder through the feeds of every blogger in the city and repost the content at their own whim.

hell, even the spambot comment pages and link farms i see still only excerpt content when they scrape it.

the full scale reposting of entire blog entries including art and images without permission is the issue.