On one hand, we have the concept that sites, such as Meme 13, have the objective of assisting the ailing blogger in a failing yet productive stage. Then, there’s the other hand which says that the positive effects of these same good Samaritans may turn out to be misinterpreted as the original data of the good Samaritans.

What would an individual who aspires to play it safe decide?

Speaking as a neo-luddite ie non techie blogga you kids is sure touchy.

Most people tend to go with wot they know in blogworld (or think they know anyways) techtalkers go with that, same with furries, photo phreaks, or any other decribable sub grouping of humanity. Looking outside of one’s narrow self interests is difficult for some. The idea that someone might actually break out of their regular pattern and go fer random in blogworld is actually a good one, methinks.

Is Rogers a lazy scraper merely looking fer coin or is he someone who actually sees an increased sterility to the techtalkers circles who wants to shake it up a bit?

Spud’s vote is fer the latter interpretation but y’all are free to dispute it or ignore it or wotever.

That’s the beauty of the place.

Be Well.

Only for two weeks. Once ProBlogger drops off Meme13 in around 12 days, it doesn’t come back. People who see his blog on Meme13 and want to keep reading it have to subscribe to his feed.

That’s true. I just wonder, if the content that Meme 13 promotes is of fairly similar quality and topic, people might not go to the effort of subscribing to a bunch of different blogs. I could be wrong – actually I’d like to be wrong.

I also wonder if I’m being a hypocrite since I’m subscribed to Daring Fireball (mainly because it was already subscribed when I installed NetNewsWire), which I think has its own posts and other peoples. The ones from others aren’t full feeds though…

I would like to know how this project works out! Rogers or Darren, a future post on following up whether Meme13 succeeded in a) bringing articles to a wider audience and b) directing subscriptions to the original blogs might be in order!

Only for two weeks. Once ProBlogger drops off Meme13 in around 12 days, it doesn’t come back. People who see his blog on Meme13 and want to keep reading it have to subscribe to his feed.

The newest sites and sources to roll through the Techmeme Leaderboard, packaged together in sample size.

Great! I can get the same info by subscribing to one feed, instead of 9… not the right message to send.

Also, how is this helping up-and-coming bloggers? I think you left that category a long time ago.

Done the way they are doing it is blatant copyright violation. It also draws their activity from the real works of others and it usurpsintentionally or by default, the creative works of others. It is a sort of, for the sake of better wording, a vampire activity.

Theoretically I should want to go along with it for the professed reason it could help my new blogs get exposure. That it can misassign source where the real deal is viewed as the impostor – that should be nipped in the bud real fast.

Most people do not read or care about blogs. So anything that can be done to get somebody’s blog on a computer screen and read can’t be all that bad.

Stop with the tunnel vision and open up to the possiblities.

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Meme13 does not keep content around. A site’s featured for around two weeks and never appears again. Feed data is not archived. I think that reduces potential SEO issues.

ProBlogger features heavily on Meme13 today because your site was just discovered on the Techmeme Leaderboard April 14 (which means it hasn’t appeared there since I began monitoring Feb. 4). Your site will drop off around May 1.

The idea I’m pursuing here is to make it as easy as possible to sample and subscribe to new blogs. If the Meme13 feed …

http://www.meme13.com/atom.xml

… contains exactly what you’d see in the site’s feed, and there’s a “subscribe” button on each entry to your feed, it’s a n easy way to sample sites. I think the “rolling reader” format has potential as a way to present new sites to people who might like them.

This one you are dealing with has all the earmarks of a similar blatant ripoff with a smiling face on it. Send them the cease and desist! If you do not defend your copyrighted material, who is going to?

This will also affect A list blog like problogger.net but think about upcoming blogs. My guess is, they would suffer more. And as you rightly mentioned, they are at a greater risk of ranking down on google SERPs.

I find that many smaller blogs, in their effort to get recognised, come up with really great content, but struggle to get exposure, whereas some of the A list blogs (of which ProBlogger is not one!) have become complacent and lazy with their post content.

It will be interesting to see if this service, or similiar services, actually make the effort to find new blogs, or they end up following the same old names as everyone else.

Planets are meant to bring together a community, but they should be opt in.

It’s funny, a few weeks ago I asked a dozen or so bloggers if they wanted to join an SEO planet. I didn’t many responses, and none positive, so I dropped it. Now this…makes me wonder were they got the idea from.

About two years ago a I sent a very acidic email to Tailrank and got into it a bit with Kevin Burton (founder) and I can say the discussion contained some terms not best discussed publicly but it all came down to a fundamental disagreement between him and I.

Tailrank had republished my entire RSS feed and I saw absolutely no traffic (maybe one or two after a 24hour cycle – MAYBE). I was very upset. I have moved on, and obviously so has Kevin but I am sure that was neither the first or last email Kevin faced on the issue back then.

Darren I have spoken out once against something you said long ago and you dropped by and responded respectfully, and I so I see you as the patient type. But the web is filled with Good Intentions so throw the baby out with the bathwater and send a cease-and-desist letter to Meme13.

You will not see traffic (except for comments like this but I am already aware of you) from them and they will make money off your back.

All I have to say is they better not publish our content.

That being said and this is getting long, if he published excerpts or first paragraphs then I am 100% behind the idea, but ‘good intentions’ are not enough for me anymore.

Cheers
Roger
Editor of TechWinter

Anybody that knows how to work a feed reader can subscribe to these feeds. Why use Meme13?