The big publishers are coming together to build the Fair Syndication Consortium to fight sploggers and online plagiarism (via Erick Schonfeld). While solutions in the past have tried to modify the content or syndication to fight sploggers, the consortium aims to eliminate the root cause. The consortium wants to negotiate with the ad networks to pay them for their content being reproduced elsewhere. [Continue]
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Indian Bloggers Facing Legal Problems
Indian bloggers are getting in legal tangle. Bloggers have already faced legal threats from the mainstream media. But, because of the lack of laws, an individual usually chooses to back off and retract his/her opinions. [Continue]
Excuses For Unblogging
I guess I have finally found a word for what I did with this blog for last month or so - unblogging! For various reasons I could not be near an Internet connection. That and some personal reasons kept me from being active on this blog. [Continue]
Google Blog Converters To Help You Switch Blogging Tools
If moving your data has been the main hurdle for you to switch between blogging tools and services, then Google is coming to help you. Google Blog Converters (via Lidija Davis) contains converters to and from various blog tools. It is a set of Python scripts, and some hosted services, though with certain limitations. [Continue]
Pink For October
In an attempt to support the Breast Cancer awareness month, this blog is going pink for October, like the last year. Many of you might feel that the decoration does not help. However, if a bunch of us do it together, it will definitely draw attention to the matter.
Free Magazines via TradePub
The good people at RevResponse.com got in touch with me to offer free magazine subscriptions for you, the readers. There is a widget in the sidebar called “Free Technical Resource Center” that will lead you there. You can subscribe to some good software development magazines and journals for free. [Continue]
Changing My Reading Pattern
I read a lot of feeds, which include group blogs and newspapers. Over the years I have observed, that their USPs fall in one of the following: Being first with the news Carrying exclusive news Offering unique analysis and opinions However, recently a lot of the group blogs are carrying content that I just skim over. There are the occasional ones that I click through, bookmark, comment or blog about it, but over time their percentage has dipped down. [Continue]
Facing Content Theft
So, like other bloggers I am facing the problem of content theft. It is being done by scraping the full feeds. Man, it is so easy to use technology the wrong way! [Continue]
Why Do I Blog About Programming?
I have myself often pondered what I got out of blogging here. I am definitely not into publishing or media business, so that rules out most of the monetary reasons. I wondered if it was therapeutic, but, as Reginald mentions, maybe it is the Dunning-Kruger effect. [Continue]
Google Brings OpenID To Blogger
I will soon be able to comment on blogs done using Blogger using my OpenID, which is this blog’s URL. Google is bringing OpenID to the new Blogger. OpenID enables them to support other URLs which are OpenIDs, like the blog URLs from other blogging services like LiveJournal and WordPress.com, as the image shows. [Continue]
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