Comments on: When network blogs change history it cannot be a good thing

By: Kevin Marks

Kevin Marks — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 14:48:37 +0000

Well, if you don’t have permalinks, we shouldn’t be indexing you, as we have nothing to point back to.

By: L'Emmerdeur

L'Emmerdeur — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 13:26:25 +0000

See what happens when you slap karma in the face? She kicks you in the jimmy. http://www.dragonseye.com/blog/archives/68-Interesting-Coincidences.html

By: L'Emmerdeur

L'Emmerdeur — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 13:26:25 +0000

See what happens when you slap karma in the face? She kicks you in the jimmy.

http://www.dragonseye.com/blog/archives/68-Interesting-Coincidences.html

By: L'Emmerdeur

L'Emmerdeur — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 13:26:25 +0000

See what happens when you slap karma in the face? She kicks you in the jimmy.

http://www.dragonseye.com/blog/archives/68-Interesting-Coincidences.html

By: L'Emmerdeur

L'Emmerdeur — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 12:26:25 +0000

See what happens when you slap karma in the face? She kicks you in the jimmy.

http://www.dragonseye.com/blog/archives/68-Interesting-Coincidences.html

By: L'Emmerdeur

L'Emmerdeur — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 12:26:25 +0000

See what happens when you slap karma in the face? She kicks you in the jimmy.

http://www.dragonseye.com/blog/archives/68-Interesting-Coincidences.html

By: Alfredo

Alfredo — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 03:20:10 +0000

Weblogsinc steals plain and simple. Ryan Block Scott McNulty the list goes on.

By: Ben Ruedlinger

Ben Ruedlinger — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 11:28:16 +0000

Kevin,

I would not characterize Blogniscient as a “republisher”. We do not republish anyone’s content in full. We act more as a traffic cop, directing our users (via clearly marked links) to some of the top content from around the Blogosphere.

That being said, from a parsing point of view, our page looks a bit different than most blogs. Most blogs have a series of posts which contain a title, a self-referring permalink, and some content (with other optional items like comments). The main difference with Blogniscient is that we do not provide a self-referencing permalink. Rather, for each article that we reference we provide a link to the actual content (like a pointer).

I believe that there is value in allowing bloggers to see which of their posts have been linked to by Blogniscient. So, from that point of view I would not advocate removing Blogniscient from Technorati’s index.

Is there currently a way for bloggers/content producers to inform Technorati about the structure of their content? This is a capability which could help elminate any confusion between the producer and indexer. I understand that given that this issue potentially affects a small number of users, it may not be a high priority item; however, it is a functionality to consider for the future if it does not already exist.

Ben Ruedlinger
Blogniscient
http://technology.blogniscient.com

By: Kevin Marks

Kevin Marks — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 06:37:55 +0000

So, are you saying we shouldn’t index Blogniscient as you are a republisher?
I can arrange that.
I can’t see how we would make up a link; we read links from your page – could you have linked to both articles consecutively?

By: HART (1-800-HART)

HART (1-800-HART) — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 22:29:42 +0000

Just another 2cent though, I’ve seen in technorati some of my posts looking like this .. (blockquoteBlah-Blah-Blah .. and I can assure you that as soon as I noticed that I forget to close my blockquote – I immediately went in and changed it and it didn’t last long in my post. Then, the post looked like .. Blah-Blah-Blah .. I don’t know why it was still in my watchlist at technorati like that .. although I see lots of weird stuff there .. Probably because I’ve included that technorati ping command in my wordpress options.

Of course, This situation is in reverse, removing something or changing something instead of fixing something. I just think it is more like “poor judgement and haste” rather than a “deliberate attempt to change history to boost one’s own network” type of issue. Yah. Nobody’s perfect. Stuff happens all the time. Nobody ever wants the worse to happen.

This just wasn’t ‘news’ to me. But, there does seem to be some good come out of all of this, even if you don’t get the referral link … I’ve now added you to my Bloglines and you found another reader :-) // Cya around!