Technometria

Home
Why Technometria?
RSS
Atom
Podcast Feed
Add to Google

Recommend This Site

About Phil

Brief Bio
Contact Info
Phil on Twitter
Speaking
InfoWorld
Photo Albums
Video Favorites
CTO Breakfast

Essays

2006
2005
2004
2003
CIO White Papers

Visit Count

Software

Packages

Topic Guides

Digital ID Policies
Internet Application Performance
Setting Up a Linux Server
Public Service Tips

Categories

Blog TagCloud

Archives

February 2012
January 2012
December 2011
November 2011
October 2011
September 2011
August 2011
July 2011
June 2011
May 2011
April 2011
March 2011
February 2011
January 2011
December 2010
November 2010
October 2010
September 2010
August 2010
July 2010
June 2010
May 2010
April 2010
March 2010
February 2010
January 2010
December 2009
November 2009
October 2009
September 2009
August 2009
July 2009
June 2009
May 2009
April 2009
March 2009
February 2009
January 2009
December 2008
November 2008
October 2008
September 2008
August 2008
July 2008
June 2008
May 2008
April 2008
March 2008
February 2008
January 2008
December 2007
November 2007
October 2007
September 2007
August 2007
July 2007
June 2007
May 2007
April 2007
March 2007
February 2007
January 2007
December 2006
November 2006
October 2006
September 2006
August 2006
July 2006
June 2006
May 2006
April 2006
March 2006
February 2006
January 2006
December 2005
November 2005
October 2005
September 2005
August 2005
July 2005
June 2005
May 2005
April 2005
March 2005
February 2005
January 2005
December 2004
November 2004
October 2004
September 2004
August 2004
July 2004
June 2004
May 2004
April 2004
March 2004
February 2004
January 2004
December 2003
November 2003
October 2003
September 2003
August 2003
July 2003
June 2003
May 2003
April 2003
March 2003
February 2003
January 2003
December 2002
November 2002
October 2002
September 2002
August 2002
July 2002
June 2002
May 2002

Utah Tech Organizations

BYU Unix User's Group
Provo Linux User's Group
Utah Valley Linux User's Group
Ubuntu Utah
Salt Lake LUG
USU Free Software and Linux Club
Greater Utah BSD User Group
Utah PHP Users Group
Utah Python User Group
Utah Ruby Users Group
Ogden Area LUG
Southern Utah Unix Users Group
UtahSAINT

Copyright

Copyright © 2002-2012 PJW LC. Some rights reserved. Technometria is a trademark of PJW LC in the United States and other countries.

« Tom Adelstein and Government IT | Main | TechNewsRadio Interview »

Blatant Ripoff?

I’m not sure what to make of this. Last month, I was interviewed (for about an hour) by Celeste Biever who was writing a story on InfoCard for New Scientist. The story came out yesterday. Also yesterday, I got a Google News alert that pointed me at this story from TMCnet. The story seems to be the New Scientist story, at least the first few paragraphs are the same—New Scientist puts the rest of the story behind a paywall.

The TMCnet story references New Scientist, but provides no link and doesn’t say that Celeste Biever is the author. TMCnet pops up ads and is filled with ads, so I can only image that they take content from anywhere and republish it. Is this a blatant ripoff, or am I missing something?

In any event, if you’re looking to understand InfoCard, this Register story is pretty good and you won’t have to pay for it or endure in-your-face advertising to do so.

Posted by windley on April 1, 2006 11:59 AM

See related posts:

 Share this article on Facebook
 Email this article to a friend
  Post this article to del.icio.us
 Format this article for printing
 Get the SNUrlfor this page

2 Comments

Comment from Glenn Fleishman at April 1, 2006 2:10 PM

TMCNet and Red Nova appear to both simply reprint online content without permission but noting the origin, which is odd. They are both part of Google and Yahoo's news monitoring, which I've tried to get revoked. Red Nova is particularly bad, and I've reported them to a host of sources whose copyright they've violated -- and had not a single response from those sources (Christian Science Monitor and other large pubs).

Comment from Sean O'Steen at April 4, 2006 3:08 PM

This appears to be a common way to build up a link farm, or in this case, an Ad farm. The ripped off content is certainly a search engine optimization exploit, which boosts the site's page rank by delivering what the search engine identifies as timely and related content. It's going to get worse before it gets better since search engine algorithms will have a difficult time differentiating this type of site from a legitimate blog post, which has quoted your work for purpose that might be covered by fair-use.