Well, if you don’t have permalinks, we shouldn’t be indexing you, as we have nothing to point back to.

See what happens when you slap karma in the face? She kicks you in the jimmy.

http://www.dragonseye.com/blog/archives/68-Interesting-Coincidences.html

See what happens when you slap karma in the face? She kicks you in the jimmy.

http://www.dragonseye.com/blog/archives/68-Interesting-Coincidences.html

See what happens when you slap karma in the face? She kicks you in the jimmy.

http://www.dragonseye.com/blog/archives/68-Interesting-Coincidences.html

See what happens when you slap karma in the face? She kicks you in the jimmy.

http://www.dragonseye.com/blog/archives/68-Interesting-Coincidences.html

See what happens when you slap karma in the face? She kicks you in the jimmy.

http://www.dragonseye.com/blog/archives/68-Interesting-Coincidences.html

Weblogsinc steals plain and simple. Ryan Block Scott McNulty the list goes on.

Kevin,

I would not characterize Blogniscient as a “republisher”. We do not republish anyone’s content in full. We act more as a traffic cop, directing our users (via clearly marked links) to some of the top content from around the Blogosphere.

That being said, from a parsing point of view, our page looks a bit different than most blogs. Most blogs have a series of posts which contain a title, a self-referring permalink, and some content (with other optional items like comments). The main difference with Blogniscient is that we do not provide a self-referencing permalink. Rather, for each article that we reference we provide a link to the actual content (like a pointer).

I believe that there is value in allowing bloggers to see which of their posts have been linked to by Blogniscient. So, from that point of view I would not advocate removing Blogniscient from Technorati’s index.

Is there currently a way for bloggers/content producers to inform Technorati about the structure of their content? This is a capability which could help elminate any confusion between the producer and indexer. I understand that given that this issue potentially affects a small number of users, it may not be a high priority item; however, it is a functionality to consider for the future if it does not already exist.

Ben Ruedlinger
Blogniscient
http://technology.blogniscient.com

So, are you saying we shouldn’t index Blogniscient as you are a republisher?
I can arrange that.
I can’t see how we would make up a link; we read links from your page – could you have linked to both articles consecutively?

Just another 2cent though, I’ve seen in technorati some of my posts looking like this .. (blockquoteBlah-Blah-Blah .. and I can assure you that as soon as I noticed that I forget to close my blockquote – I immediately went in and changed it and it didn’t last long in my post. Then, the post looked like .. Blah-Blah-Blah .. I don’t know why it was still in my watchlist at technorati like that .. although I see lots of weird stuff there .. Probably because I’ve included that technorati ping command in my wordpress options.

Of course, This situation is in reverse, removing something or changing something instead of fixing something. I just think it is more like “poor judgement and haste” rather than a “deliberate attempt to change history to boost one’s own network” type of issue. Yah. Nobody’s perfect. Stuff happens all the time. Nobody ever wants the worse to happen.

This just wasn’t ‘news’ to me. But, there does seem to be some good come out of all of this, even if you don’t get the referral link … I’ve now added you to my Bloglines and you found another reader // Cya around!

Ahh, I just read your latest post, so thanks! Though it would still be great if you could link to that one from this one (however, this is your blog so feel free to do what you like!).

jk, I would appreciate (as the lead blogger of TUAW) if you updated this post to reflect what happened, since as of now it still appears, if one reads the post and not the comments, that TUAW did something wrong when in fact we didn’t (that’s what we do when we’ve made an error on TUAW after-all).

Nick, thanks for reading TUAW. It is true that we cover the same space, so there is bound to be overlap (as there is with Maccentral, Macminute, and so on…). TUAW hardly ever calls something an exclusive, and we always link back to our sources.

I posted this on problogger as well:

TUAW is pretty useless anyway, IMO. Quite unprofessional if you ask me. They take lots of stuff from our site, http://www.macnn.com, and of course never credit us. Luckily, MacNN is several times larger than TUAW, so whatever. It’s not so much that they “steal” news that bothers me — it’s competition afterall. What irks me as they try to make readers think they are the first on the story, when in reality they are far from it. That’s a problem with a lot of the crummy weblogs inc blogs, though — too slow on the news, and they make a big deal out of it when they finally report on it. yaawwwwn

Ben, point well taken. Thanks for the kind words.

jk,

Just to clarify, I did not say you “maliciously accused” anyone. I said that *we* (not you) should not jump to conclusions about others being malicious (deliberately harmful). These are two very different statements.

That being said, I think that you do a great job with your blog and I look forward to continuing to read your insightful mobile technology posts.

Ben Ruedlinger
http://technology.blogniscient.com

No idea what the details of this are but I can tell you the folks at TUAW (a WIN property) and HackADay (no longer part of WIN) are some of the best folks around. All very high-quality, moral, ethical, and nice people you would ever get to know.

On to some details:

1. We hat tip (aka give credit) to people all day long.

2. It is our policy to give credit…. just scan down our blog and look at the “via,” “thanks,” “hat tip,” and “read” links!

3. We send much more traffic outside of our network (like 100 to 1+) than we do inside. That is the whole point of blogs–to riff on and point people to interesting discussions and things.

4. We have 160+ bloggers in the network and we cover a lot of the same stuff, and many of the blogs do work together on joint projects, but this is for fun and more than anything. Also, if you have the leading car (autoblog) and leading baby (bloggingbabY) blog they are going to be updated the most and the % chance that they would like to each other on some “baby car technology” story are greater.

Talk to Fabienne… she’s great and I’m sure she will work it out with you.

best j