Comments on: Bloglines and the Perils of Syndication

By: James Curbo

James Curbo — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Considering your blog is not software, I don’t understand why you’re worried about it conflicting with the DFSG. I think a ’some rights reserved’ license is fine for written works.

And instead of bloglines I use http://newsninja.net – I know the authors of the site and they provide it as a service, not as a business product.

By: Michael Janssen

Michael Janssen — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

honestly, right now bloglines is a planet for everyone. If it changes to a more evil intent, I’ll probably reconsider using it. However, it seems to be much better than anything I can setup myself or have on a website (for free). I did try the newsninja.net mentioned here, but it looks like something I don’t want – I want to read all of my links at one place, not view headlines and visit all the sites myself. I crave content aggregation, not meta-content. (If newsninja.net does this, I retract my statement – but it’s broken right now and I’m going from the default page).

I would note that if you’re against this AdWords on steriods, you’re also should be against normal AdWords. I trust in Google to not be evil, but if we’re going on about licensing, you’ll also have to restrict your blog from google which kindof eliminates the kind of planting that the U-Haul and other consumer protection stories create.

By: Adam Rosi-Kessel

Adam Rosi-Kessel — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Just to clarify, I’m not worried that a license I chose from my blog content conflicts with the DFSG. I just wanted to make clear that I don’t endorse that particular license for software.

By: Steve Laniel

Steve Laniel — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Just as an aside, OS X users typically use NetNewsWire, which is my favorite aggregator on any platform.

By: Adam Rosi-Kessel

Adam Rosi-Kessel — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

And to respond to Michael Janssen: the difference, I think, between “AdWords on steroids” and “AdWords” is that with normal Google AdWords, my content isn’t be aggregated and reframed with advertising I may disagree with. Somebody’s search terms that lead to my blog may also be keywords that give certain paid results on Google, but it’s the search terms that are tied to the results, not my particular content. If I put AdWords on my site as do some bloggers, the analogy would be closer–but in that scenario (1) I would be making a conscious “opt-in” choice to use the service and (2) I would be profiting from the paid text, not some third party service.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000