Posts Tagged with ‘EchoDitto-Labs’

Free the Feed. Or Make It Free.

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira

I hate your partial feed.
Yes, I've heard all the arguments for partial feeds: they prevent splogging; they ensure people visit the site and generate the precious ad revenue; they keep feed readers from stealing eyeballs.
Sploggers, however, scrape sites any which way they can. A full feed may make it a little easier, but a partial feed won't prevent it. I have one hilarious splog in my bookmarks that scrapes the content, translates it to another language, then translates it back [...]