Roundup of blogosphere talk about Attributor, software that allows journalists to track their content wherever it goes on the Web
2. Google Blog Search results.
3. kottke.org: “A New Sheriff in Town?”
Point of interest: Kottke led me to this TechCrunch post summarizing the service, which led me to this picture of Attributor’s dashboard view.
4. Changing Way: “Attributor and (Non-)Attribution”
Point of interest: Suggests Attributor provide a free version for bloggers which could later lead toward greater monetization than charging immediately.
5. IT Broadcast and Digital Cinema: “Watermarking and Fingerprinting”
Point of interest: Puts Attributor in context with the many other ways media creators try to track and control their content.
6. Corante: Copyfight: “Too Many Cooks Spoil The Copyright?”
Point of interest: the last paragraph. All of us copy to some extent. It’s the way knowledge works. So how much copying is fair? My meandering-mind response: Knowledge requires freedom to be effective, but imprisonment to make money. How do the two meet?
7. CNET and CHOW: Kitchen Gadgets: “Pirates in the kitchen: Recipe copying ‘rampant’ online”
Point of interest: “‘Sploggers’ eating up Web traffic” followed by this paragraph: “Attributor estimates that Allrecipes.com is missing out on a little more than 800,000 site visits each month and that Epicurious is missing out on 400,000 monthly visits because of sites Pearson calls “sploggers” that essentially thrive by copying other sites’ recipes and optimizing them to appear high in search engine results.”
8. TechCrunch: “Attributor launches service to track copyright infringement across the Web”
Point of interest: this sentence: “Links are the currency of the Web,” which inspired a commenter, Freedom of Science, to write this interesting post, “Scholastic PageRank“, with this point of interest: When academic doctors use their system of linking to other sources, they’re hiding knowledge from non-doctors, but the same approach helps organize and reveal knowledge on the Web.
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