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Re: TC Cribs: Take A Doc On The Wild Side At Scribd (With Bonus Go Karts!)

Jamie — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 21:22:22 -0000

Jason - you're always welcome to visit the Posterous crib in the Mission. We'll even treat you to lunch at our favorite taco truck.

Re: Learning to Drive a Stagecoach in Paso Robles

Jamie — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:15:39 -0000

I like these kinds of random adventures! I'm putting this one on my list.

Re: A Brief History of 9 Popular Blogging Platforms

Jamie — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 04:56:21 -0000

How could you leave out Posterous?

Re: Dear copyright-hounds Attributor: Are you reading our site?

Jamie — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:45:03 -0000

Ernie, I just posted to our blog trying to answer your questions (and others!)

http://www.attributor.com/b...

Re: Dear copyright-hounds Attributor: Are you reading our site?

Jamie — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:48:45 -0000

Ernie - good points. While I can't speak for all of the publishers, the majority seem to have a per site license.

While true that a blogger may only receive a notice out of the blue, it will only be if he/she has reused more than 10 full copies in the last month. And the notice actually presumes innocence in that we are asking them to confirm that they have a license.

Finally and maybe most importantly, the focus of this effort is to convince Google and the other ad networks to support the ad revenue sharing model proposed by the Fair Syndication Consortium (www.fairsyndication.org). I urge you to check this out as we are trying to build an infrastructure that adds the value to bloggers as you mention.

I'm interested in your thoughts on this - with luck, and some support from bloggers like you, DMCA notices will be replaced by revenue sharing agreements.

Re: Dear copyright-hounds Attributor: Are you reading our site?

Jamie — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:58:12 -0000

Hi Ernie - I work at Attributor and wanted to reassure you that only sites posting full copies of the articles will be contacted. In all cases, the first contact will be a note asking you if you already have a license or want to purchase one before any further actions are taken.

Rich

Re: Why Book Piracy Isn’t Costing U.S. Publishers $3 Billion Per Year

Jamie — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:27:44 -0000

Michael - we're pretty transparent in the research that this figure represents the potential loss to the book industry, specifically stating that

"This study does not attempt to address the issue of determining to what degree pirated books represent financial loss to the industry as it does not estimate how many free downloads might have otherwise resulted in a sale. In other words, this study does not attempt to answer the question, “How many of these pirated books would have been purchased legally if piracy was not an option?” Previous studies assume a one-to-one substitution, meaning all pirated material would have been purchased and thus the market value of pirated books is equal to the actual loss, though Attributor feels this is an overly optimistic assumption. This issue will be addressed in a future research phase.

Rich

Re: Book industry nears its Napster moment

Jamie — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:16:02 -0000

Paul, Based on the download data we've seen - an average of 10k downloads per title - this moment may have arrived already. I know many authors will dispute the implication that the money they make from traditional book sales is immaterial, but I agree that the iPad and the Kindle, to a lesser extent, have increased authors and publishers risks substantially.

More data on the scope of the issue here: http://www.attributor.com/b...

Re: Google Reader Steals the Conversation with New Commenting Feature

Jamie — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:58:14 -0000

Any estimates on how long until ads start appearing in Google Reader?

Re: FairShare.cc - Track Your Creative Commons | Visit fairshare

Jamie — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 10:45:19 -0000

Thanks for the review. To answer your question, FairShare supports Austrian, Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian and Spanish.

Re: Study: Stolen Web Content Sees More Traffic Than The Original

Jamie — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:02:21 -0000

Hi John,

Actually it's not excerpts - the study excluded any reuse that was below 125 words or below 50% of the original article. All quotes are automatically excluded as well.

We actually determine if links are present as well, and I agree with you about the numerous benefits - this wasn't the focus of this study but you can read a post on it here: http://www.attributor.com/b...

Re: Study: Stolen Web Content Sees More Traffic Than The Original

Jamie — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:23:16 -0000

Great point on blogs (disclaimer that I work for Attributor) - one of the new solutions we're proposing is for publishers to work directly with the ad networks and share in revenue made by others. The concept is that publishers should set their content free and be able to share in the revenue that others make from it.

Re: Is the link economy really broken?

Jamie — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 11:20:18 -0000

I agree - ignorance is definitely not a valid excuse anymore - link juice is a mainstream mainstream concept now. Links equates higher search rank which leads to more traffic and more ad revenue.

I'm curious if you (or anyone else reading this) would be interested in a feed that shows you all the sites where your work is re-used without links.

If so, shoot me a note or respond in the comments.

Re: The Importance Of Blog Linking Seems to Be Declining

Jamie — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:52:04 -0000

I agree with Danny - links are the backbone of your organic search ranking which, as your stats suggest, are your dominant traffic driver.

It would be interesting to find out if you were actually receiving less links, meaning that fewer bloggers are linking out . . .

Re: Blogs and the attribution dilemma

Jamie — Mon, 12 May 2008 22:17:13 -0000

This is spot on, particularly about links being the life-blood of the web. Links count for much more than traffic from click-throughs - they are one of the best indications of page rank and your resulting search engine rank.

Re: Sploggers Steal Content, It’s What They Do

Jamie — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 00:22:08 -0000

Steve - I just sent you a mail. Hopefully, we can talk soon.

Re: Sploggers Steal Content, It’s What They Do

Jamie — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 19:39:43 -0000

Steve - wrt minimizing the damage from unattributed copying by other bloggers, I'd propose two tactics

- Request a link and/or revenue share if they are placing ads across your content (low likelihood of success against splogers but should work ok for legit bloggers/sites)

- Send notice to search engines, ad networks and host to remove from index. (certainly more drastic but when sploggers are appearing higher in search rankings than your original post, this seems appropriate). While .ru site host may not respond, removal from search engine indexes will make these sites hard to find and ad network removal notices will hit sploggers where it hurts most.

Disclosure that I work for Attributor and we are enabling the above actions. Interested in your response and how we could make this more useful.