Comments on: Steal This Post! You’ve Got Permission. http://www.mediaite.com/online/steal-this-post-youve-got-permission/ Mediaite Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:58:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=2012.06 By: Zach Seward http://www.mediaite.com/online/steal-this-post-youve-got-permission/#comment-3198 Zach Seward Sun, 23 Aug 2009 17:37:39 +0000 http://www.mediaite.com/?p=16002#comment-3198 To be fair to old media, Somari, I think Business Insider was inspired by Reuters, which also allows embeds of its content. They <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-publish-reuters-copy-on-your-site-for-free-legally-2009-6" rel="nofollow">praised</a> it in June. A few other thoughts... Blodget <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/henry-blodget-go-ahead-embed-this-post-2009-8#comment-4a8d9eb6e17c333a616290a1" rel="nofollow">said</a> he might try finding a sponsor for this, which makes sense. But I wonder if he isn't also motivated by keeping BI's text out of search results for other sites. Duplicate content hurts SEO. And what happens if BI folds or stops supporting this feature? Copying and pasting plain text has its advantages. To be fair to old media, Somari, I think Business Insider was inspired by Reuters, which also allows embeds of its content. They praised it in June. A few other thoughts…

Blodget said he might try finding a sponsor for this, which makes sense. But I wonder if he isn’t also motivated by keeping BI’s text out of search results for other sites. Duplicate content hurts SEO. And what happens if BI folds or stops supporting this feature? Copying and pasting plain text has its advantages.

]]> By: Kevin Gotkin http://www.mediaite.com/online/steal-this-post-youve-got-permission/#comment-3194 Kevin Gotkin Sun, 23 Aug 2009 16:10:23 +0000 http://www.mediaite.com/?p=16002#comment-3194 More evidence that sharing news is better than trying to keep it quarantined and cut off. More evidence that sharing news is better than trying to keep it quarantined and cut off.

]]> By: Shomari Hines http://www.mediaite.com/online/steal-this-post-youve-got-permission/#comment-3193 Shomari Hines Sun, 23 Aug 2009 16:07:47 +0000 http://www.mediaite.com/?p=16002#comment-3193 Again a new media operation trumps old media. This is something that would have been great for newspaper websites such as NYtimes, WSJ etc. It carries the brand of the original publisher and it it will no doubt send traffic back to the original source if readers find a particular article interesting. Again a new media operation trumps old media. This is something that would have been great for newspaper websites such as NYtimes, WSJ etc. It carries the brand of the original publisher and it it will no doubt send traffic back to the original source if readers find a particular article interesting.

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