Library clips

RSS Usability Options is yet another quick subscription service for your readers.

KickRSS is really giving Blogdigger groups a run for its money by not only remixing feeds but also presenting them as a river of news.

See recent articles from today, yesterday, week

…what about forever?
Does it dump items over 7 days old, I don’t think Blogdigger groups does this as it is a present and past portal.

You can also search your mix.

The labels are more clear than Blogdigger groups, well it is a label instead of the URL string…anyway the idea is that you can view items from once source (a check box would be good to choose from a selection of sources)

Something I’d like from these RSS digests is to organise the sources into folders, just like personal RSS readers, that way you could read a river of news at the folder level.

What I like about Blogdigger groups is that you can do search RSS feeds, even from a single feed.

As it grows hopefully they can list all the kickRSS mixes in a directory of some sort.

In all, kickRSS is a simplified but very effective newsmastering tool.

Basically what it has over Blogdigger groups is the easy to undertand interface and the presentation…I wonder if any customisation of the presentation is coming soon (make your own branded Public RSS aggregators, that’s what I’m after).

Check out the Library Stuff contribution…Steven also points out that it lacks an OPML file.

Feed Digest is always improving itself, I wonder if it will head into this direction, it’s inevitable once you’ve made some feeds that you can present them somewhere, this is a huge market.

Another alternative is to also offer a display similar to Fyuze’s pages of display boxes (like what you get on virtual desktops like Netvibes)

Rollyo now let you export a searchbox to your blog, I’ve placed one on my sidebar to search my blogroll.
At the moment when you click the drop down you only have a choice to search across my whole blogroll, if I have time I am considering also listing each blog separately…so you can search “all” or individually.

There is also a feature to add a search roll to your Firefox toolbar.

It would be great to import a batch of blogs into Rollyo via an OPML file, if possible…at the moment you can search my Bloglines account via Feedster (as it can search the OPML file).

Related post:
Swicki: mini search engine

In the wake of fresh blogosphere news portals like Memeorandum comes Blogniscient.

Thanks to the TechCrunch crew

I was doing some ego searching and came across a blog who has re-published my post as their own, what’s with that! Check out this post at mindblast, it’s my post, but there is no link to my blog, and the author is labelled as someone else.

Here is the original post which is from my blog, you will notice the 1st couple of paragraphs are missing as well as the last sentence.

Someone has also left a comment saying it’s a nice list and where did he get it from…well that’s just it isn’t it, you shouldn’t have to ask, as it should be linked back to the source, and on top of it not be claimed as your own…since it has a few bits missing the least would be to quote it from my post, and link back.

At first I thought it was a clipping type action where the post is re-published from an RSS reader and for some reason it wasn’t linking to the source, but what about the author’s name.
But then I noticed it wasn’t a software problem as some of the post has been deleted just leaving the listed items.

So you might say how did I find this post if I was ego searching (seeing who links to me) as I’ve mentioned one of the problems is they don’t link back to me, well the only reason I found this post is that I’m referencing one of my own posts at the end, so that’s how I found it.

This may be happening with other posts that people are claiming as their own, but how would you know, maybe a tool like Copyscape helps, but all it found was some of my posts in a Blogdigger search…also with Copyscape you have to manually check, it isn’t a magic scout that checks and alerts you when someone is ripping you off!

So this isn’t an RSS re-syndicating issue (which we accept), this is outright plagiarism!

PS: I can’t seem to find their email, and instead of leaving a comment on their blog, what better than to achieve the same thing by using trackback, and broadcasting at the same time.