AutoblogGreen content being swiped
I was perusing my Technorati feeds this evening when I spotted some familiar words. It was the post I wrote this morning about Saab bringing their flex-fuel cars to the Australian market. However it wasn't coming from this site. It was on a page hosted over on Wordpress.com, a free blog hosting service from the creators of wordpress. I checked out the site and it was populated with all the posts from AutoblogGreen.com. It had all the images on our posts, links, everything. Well almost everything. There was no attribution or references to AutoblogGreen. Wordpress.com support has been contacted and hopefully the site will get shutdown promptly. In the meantime if you're reading this content and you're not on the AutoblogGreen.com site, please go there and let us know where you found our content. Quoting other's content and commenting on it is OK but it needs to be attributed and hopefully linked. That's how the web works.
update: Wordpress.com responded very quickly and the site in question has been taken down. However, if you do spot content from AutoBlog or AutoBlogGreen being posted anywhere else without attribution please let us know.
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Alternative Energy Blog 9:35AM (10/05/2006)
Unfortunately this is all too common. I found an "alternative energy blog" website whose only content had been had copied from my RSS feed without attributing it and had even had put out a press release on PRWire talking about their great content!!
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ThatHollie 8:38AM (10/06/2006)
When you see someone about to take your blog content, if you can shout "Swiper - no swiping!" three times before they take it, then they have to leave it alone.
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Charles S 2:14PM (10/05/2006)
From what I've read in Wired Magazine, spammers are now creating fake blogs to generate hits. You can read all about it with searches on wired and "splogs".
Since I've read about splogs, I now see lots of search results pretending to be blogs relating to my topic. All the websites with .info domain names are pretty much the first dead givaways.
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Charles S 2:16PM (10/05/2006)
BTW, also from Wired, it mentioned about ways to fight splogs, including monitoring sites lifting contents.
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,69380-0.html
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