Comments on: Something.ie are thieving from bloggers.

By: Food for thought: On Aggregating RSS feeds

Food for thought: On Aggregating RSS feeds — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 03:35:06 +0000

[...] acceptable when aggregating RSS feeds?, at aidanf.net. The post tells us of debate that involved Damien Mulley, Maman Poulet and Something.ie about aggregating RSS feeds. By the preceding links all point to [...]

By: aidanf.net

aidanf.net — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:50:09 +0000

What’s acceptable when aggregating RSS feeds?…

A few days ago Damien Mulley and Maman Poulet posted that Something.ie was stealing their content. I didn’t pay much attention at the time but at first glance it seemed like they were complaining about their RSS feed being syndicated. RSS feeds a…

By: Jazz Biscuit: » It’s a Jazz shaped interweb

Jazz Biscuit: » It’s a Jazz shaped interweb — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:04:16 +0000

[...] stealing their content for his aggregator! It’s like some sort of RSS aggregator war. (Also see this post if you are in the [...]

By: Notes From Hacksville: Is This Plagiarism?–Bock The Robber

Notes From Hacksville: Is This Plagiarism?–Bock The Robber — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:45:45 +0000

[...] Mulley addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fbocktherobber.com%2F2008%2F03%2Fnotes-from-hacksville-is-this-plagiarism’; addthis_title = ‘Notes+From+Hacksville%3A+Is+This+Plagiarism%3F’; addthis_pub = ”; Stumble it! You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. [...]

By: Bock the Robber

Bock the Robber — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 12:06:14 +0000

Fair enough. I’m not defending them. I’m just saying they haven’t done enough to make me get medieval on their ass (but that might change).

By: Maman Poulet

Maman Poulet — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 07:07:54 +0000

Nobody is saying it’s plagiarism Bock - it’s using content and attempting to build their site with the content of Irish blogs and my blog in particular for their commerical gain that I have a problem with.

By: Bock the Robber

Bock the Robber — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 01:57:54 +0000

It doesn’t seem to be blatant ripping off. They’ve been taking my posts as well, but they only put up the first few lines, and it doesn’t really bother me too much.

If they took the entire post and re-published it, I’d be seriously pissed off, and I have attacked people in the past about such practices, but I wouldn’t consider this to be plagiarism at all.

By: 73man

73man — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 19:50:35 +0000

Seems this crowd have done the same to one my recent posts:

http://parrotseducation.com/blogs/Back-Pain/1961/the-couch-sessions/

Should I be worried?

By: I do not, and never have, contributed to something.ie « In The Little Smoke

I do not, and never have, contributed to something.ie « In The Little Smoke — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 03:31:14 +0000

[...] and Personal Not one to go jumping on the band-wagon here, but a post on mulley.net, and mamanpoulet.com relating to the website something.ie prompted me to write this after having a [...]

By: Red Links 21/03/08 : Alexia Golez

Red Links 21/03/08 : Alexia Golez — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 23:05:55 +0000

[...] is using content from all over planet Irish Blogging without [...]