Comments on: Yo Gilfus, I Got Yer Syndication Fix

By: Building A Class Sized Syndication Bus - CogDogBlog

Building A Class Sized Syndication Bus - CogDogBlog — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 05:08:30 +0000

[...] I got the idea to hack the template (actually made a child theme as I do all the time now) with some code to add a line of attribution to the original tumblr blog. As Martha Burtis deftly noticed, there is actually an add-on for Feedwordpress that does this more [...]

By: Enlaces de la semana (5) | Bianka Hajdu

Enlaces de la semana (5) | Bianka Hajdu — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 09:41:05 +0000

[...] Yo Gilfus, I Got Yer Syndication Fix A raíz de la historia de un consultor pillado de republicar con nombre propio contenido de otro sin atribución, Alan Levine explica cómo añadir meta de atribución para un uso ético del plugin Feed WordPress. [...]

By: Alan Levine aka CogDog

Alan Levine aka CogDog — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 15:33:15 +0000

Sheeeeeeeeeeeet even easier. I wish RadGeek would post these on th FWP page at wordpress.org – I looked there for extras.

By: Martha

Martha — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 15:24:14 +0000

You know there’s actually an existing add-on for FWP that does attribution: http://projects.radgeek.com/add-attribution-feedwordpress/

They don’t even have to modify their theme.

By: Allen G.

Allen G. — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 21:14:53 +0000

Really? They’re working on it?

Wow.

This is something that should be designed, and QA’d before it ever sees the light of day. Anyone who runs a content website should know this!

The fact that they just rolled it out with no apparent care to properly attribute the content owner or author says a lot.

Damn the torpedoes – until we get caught.

Then we can just blame it on the technology department.

By: Stephen Downes

Stephen Downes — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 10:57:26 +0000

One thing they did was to harvest my feed, but since they didn’t want to run my commentary, they downloaded the article directly from the link URL provided. Hence a bunch of posts authored by others were credited to me (during that short period where they experimented with providing autocredits). Your solution would work better, but not perfectly (as they desired): it would display my text, not the post I am describing, crediting it to me, and showing the title and credits I run in my own blog.

I’ve long thought it interesting the way blogging in the main has diverged form the model I created originally. Every one of my posts in OLDaily (a) links to another post, and (b) provides blog and name attribution for that link automatically. If the rest of the world had followed my model we would have created this wonderful net of interlinked posts. But that didn’t happen – WP & Blogger blogs contain a title and description, and that’s basically it. No link out, no autoattribution, no connections. It was a missed opportunity.