DISQUS

This is good, I'm hoping that we'll all see some changes on Bitacle's front now.

I'll be faxing in my DMCA notice tomorrow (worse comes to worst, I'll snail-mail the sucker), since as luck would have it I'd forgotten that my home phone was disabled (replaced with a cell phone since it's cheaper). With any luck, I'll get a similar acknowledgement from Google.

Keep up the good work, and good luck.

Ouch, hope Google listens now. Honestly, I'm not sure if it's just that nobody has sent DMCA notices yet or if they just ignore it, but that Bitacle has lasted this long is disconcerting. I can only hope that none of my content gets ripped by them as well, since I've taken what precautions I can think of already.

Hope it's nothing too serious health-wise. I've been fortunate enough to be involved in only one car accident, and that was nigh ten years ago now.

I'd take it easy for a while, no sense in writing when your health is on the line. If it hurts to type, then I doubt any of your readers would want to know that you're putting yourself in that kind of position.

I want to BLEEP your BLEEP all BLEEP l' BLEEP BLEEP and BLEEP.

Adorable, but my birds are cut3r, dude.

This is a touchy subject and I'm glad you put it into perspective for others. If it weren't for hindsight, I honestly never would have considered that some bloggers get most of their traffic by posting the most interesting snippets of posts from other articles. Honestly, I hesitate to even say 'some' since I have not conducted any research on this and probably won't because of the sheer scale of such a project.

Anyhow, on to what I believe is one argument (logically speaking) of the article. While I think those readers who truly appreciate viewing the entirety of the source article will in fact view the source, it is likely to be the case that many readers of the quoting blogs will likely be more interested in the critical points presented by said blog. It's convenience at the cost of the source losing its traffic. However, is it fair to say that most bloggers who provide this are doing it to convenience their readers or simply to get traffic more easily? After all, an article's critical points is likely to be more interesting and keep the reader longer than if it were a smaller quote that provided only a small sample to get the reader to read not only the blogger's article but the source as well.

While posting on my blog, I've tried to keep the amount of quotes I use to an absolute minimum since I just don't want to have others' work on my blog. I think the amount of quotes I've used so far is one. I was quoting myself on another site- sad. I'm one of the bizarre people who feels that the vast majority of content on a blog or site should be produced by its owner. As far as posting loads of block quotes and then commenting with only one or two sentences, I disagree with it. Prior to this article, however, I never gave it much thought other than "doesn't this guy write anything himself?"

I feel awkward discussing this since I have little experience in the matter, but I'd rather say my piece and be criticized than not have my information right. If I've presented anything that is contrary to your view, I would appreciate you correcting me so that I can better discuss it. Also, I'm afraid I'm one of the many Slashdot viewers who saw this only now. After reading this, however, I plan to keep an eye on this site as it has presented some very interesting thoughts.

Thank you for the article. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it.