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Tag Archives: The Web

Sharing or Plagiarism?

In a medium as dynamic as the world-wide-web, the line between syndication / rebroadcast and cut-and-paste of someone else’s content to add value to your own site is a slippery one.
In any other medium, whether it be hard-copy publishing, sound or video content (whether recorded or broadcast), or research, the concept of reproducing someone [...]

Adapt, Evolve

I encountered a new level of sophistication in comment spam engines today. This one actually hosts a “blog” of its own. The engine parses quotes from other blogs, posts them as comments in those blogs and links back to itself. On its host site, it looks like a “blog” but, in reality, it is nothing [...]

A Watershed of Sorts

I suppose it is some kind of rite of passage for a blog when the spam-bots finally find it and start commenting. I had my first three today in the moderation queue.