Posted on Wednesday 5 October 2005 - Popularity: 2%
With the rise of RSS feeds a problematic issue can appear: other people stealing your weblog’s content. Just have a look at this typical marketing line for a malicious RSS product: “Drive thousands of visitors to your website without ever writing a single line yourself!”
“The Net is Dead” weblog has an analysis up about the good and the bad of RSS feeds. His closing comment sums it up pretty well:
The great thing about RSS is the fact that it enables anyone, anywhere to have unrestricted access to your site’s content. The bad thing about RSS is the fact that it enables anyone, anywhere to have unrestricted access to your site’s content.
October 5th, 2005 at 4:54 pm
RSS feeds have made it a lot easier to screenscrape content for linkfarms.