Entries from RSS4Lib tagged with 'copyright'
Spectives: A Nice Tool that Abuses Intellectual Property
I found a new tool (via a review at ReadWriteWeb) that offers a visual presentation of changing RSS feeds: Spectives, a "search for visual news." Conceptually, it's quite interesting. Its use of intellectual property is unfortunate. Spectives is focused on...
Endorsements and Blogging
The FTC yesterday released an updated version of "16 C.F.R. Part 255: Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising: Notice Announcing Adoption of Revised Guides" -- guidelines for acceptable endorsements and reviews of consumer products. The full...
Facebook Notes Redirects Your Feeds
I jumped on the Facebook bandwagon as it was pulling out of town and created a Facebook page for RSS4Lib (become a fan!). In the process, as I was adding the RSS feed for this blog using the Notes tool,...
RSS to iPhone / iPod touch
DoYouFeed, a site that takes an RSS feed and formats it for pretty viewing on an iPhone or iPod touch. Once you give it an RSS feed to process, it returns an iPhone- iPod touch-friendly web page with the headlines...
Putting a Creative Commons License in Your Feeds
Did you know you that it's easy to add a creative commons license to your RSS and Atom feeds -- not just to your blog's web site? Here are brief instructions for adding your Creative Commons license to RSS and...
Creative Commons and Blogging
Copyright and RSS frequently appear to be ill-suited bedfellows. On one side we have the author's desire to have one's content distributed as widely as possible. On the other, we have the publisher's desire to control the way one's content...
TinyPaste Offers Short URLs for Long Quotes
TinyPaste is a tool that does for blocks of text what TinyURL does for URLs: Give you a nice, short, URL to pass along, rather than the full-length one for the page. (A TinyURL example: http://tinyurl.com/3f94fe is much shorter than...
AP, Bloggers, and Fair Use
The Associated Press has stepped back from its original position on copyright and the blogosphere and will be developing a (hopefully) more nuanced policy. According to an article in the June 16 issue of The New York Times, "The Associated...
Copyright, RSS, and Common Sense
Of the many interesting cans of worms that content syndication tools -- RSS feeds in particular -- open, one of the most significant is copyright. The issue becomes particularly interesting when the RSS feed is the same as the site...
University of Michigan Library Blogs
The University of Michigan libraries are publishing a number of weblogs -- ranging from library news to "Have you read...?" from the Shapiro undergraduate library. Even more interesting than the library blogs is the underpinnings of the blogging environment. MBlog...
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