Archive for November 17th, 2007

10 Years Ago (Cont)

November 17th, 2007 by xformed

I wrote the post in Oct, about the time the ValOUR-IT Once movie full fund drive was kicking in and I hadn’t figured out how to pull video off a DVD that was made from a video tape of the event.

Now, I have successfully managed to import and edit a clip out of the movie, showing the Virginia State Freefall Formation record jump.


Bonus points if you can find me in the camera frame.

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Had Your Blog “Scraped” Lately?

November 17th, 2007 by xformed

It seems there’s a new trouble in Blogging City, so says Lorelle VanPossen in her post “Spinning Spammers Steal Our Blog Content.” Thanks to the digital age of programs, this is an excepot from the article to explain this phenomena:

[…]
Master Copyright Expert, Jonathan Bailey of Plagiarism Today, an adviser and contributor to the Blog Herald, investigated this and wrote in Protecting Your Content From the Spinning Spammers about this new trend in site scraping.

Jonathan calls them “Spinning Spammers”, and they are using Plugins and utilities for synonymized scraping of your blog. The process scrapes your blog feed and then “translates” your content using synonyms to replace recognizable words.
[…]

Your words may be out there already, replete with synonymous alternatives to your choices. If you get that deja vu feeling while surfing all over again, you may be correct!

Toss in my amazement that we have “experts” in plagarism to add to my surprise!

H/T: My WordPress Dashboard

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