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 Claude L (Len) Bullard wrote: > This is a medium that bots harvest, and the blogs > are made to be aggregated. Think of it as a good > practice. One of those harvesting bots is something that I work on... Just a few days ago, we announced a new application "Powered By PubSub" called "MyStack.com".[1] Of course, I created a PubSub.com subscription to track mentions of MyStack.com or links to it in the blogs and newsgroups that we monitor. I was very surprised by what I found! Virtually every blog entry that talked about MyStack.com was a simple cut and paste from the text that I wrote in an email I sent to RSS-DEV, the announcement on the PubSub.com weblog, or the front page of MyStack.com. And, in no case was any of the text "attributed" to us! The scary thing about this is that people didn't just copy sentences that dealt with "fact." They also copied and republished the bits where I was emoting a bit (i.e. "That's cool", etc...) But, by copying without attribution, those bloggers were essentially taking ownership for *my* statements! I only wish that I had said more about how wonderful I think the service is... They probably would have copied that as well. The interesting thing here is that in a case like this, where I've got a message that I'm trying to communicate, it is very much in my interest to have people copy my text *without* attribution. This situation (a product announcement) in an environment like blogspace, ends up working a lot like providing people with template letters to send to their congressman. Suddenly, you get a host of folk who look like they have well thought out considered opinions on some subject. It isn't until you start seeing multiple copies of the text that you realize that something might be wrong. But, while it is in my interest to have this copying going on, it is *not* in the interest of most blog readers to have this happening. When they read something on someone's blog, they are going to believe that they are reading that bloggers words and will want to trust them. In the future, I'll be much more sceptical about what I read in blogs since I'm now very well aware that what may appear to be someone's words aren't always. bob wyman [1] I won't go into the full-blown pitch on this list since MyStack doesn't really expose any interesting XML issues (even though it uses XML). If you want to find out what it is go to either http://mystack.com or http://pubsub.com. 
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