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Scoble laments the fact that content is being "remixed", which is blogger terminology meaning "to take and add value", or, if s/he is really being really honest: "to steal ".
Well, that's the web for you. Unfortunately, the web reduces the value of IP to zero the closer the content gets to appearing public domain, and RSS-ing has always blurred that particular boundary.
Unacceptable, yes. Also inevitable, sadly. And with all the scraping tools available, and blog network positioning going on, it's a situation that is surely going to get much, much worse.
Perhaps the search engines could do a better job of figuring out the true source. Else it makes you wonder why anyone would continue to put any real time and effort into producing crawlable, original, non-brochureware content, a situation which would benefit no one.
Well, that's the web for you. Unfortunately, the web reduces the value of IP to zero the closer the content gets to appearing public domain, and RSS-ing has always blurred that particular boundary.
Unacceptable, yes. Also inevitable, sadly. And with all the scraping tools available, and blog network positioning going on, it's a situation that is surely going to get much, much worse.
Perhaps the search engines could do a better job of figuring out the true source. Else it makes you wonder why anyone would continue to put any real time and effort into producing crawlable, original, non-brochureware content, a situation which would benefit no one.
