Library clips

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.

Phil Bradley has a great chart on what you can do to manage and share information…another great guide from a while back is Which search engine when?

I really like the way these guides are designed from the users perspective, that is sorted by the questions a user would ask. I guess Phil gets asked a lot of reference type questions since he is on the CILIP Update Internet Q & A.

Sounds like Phil would do well using a tool like Squidoo, not only as a great place to present as an expert Lens, but also that you can subscribe to RSS feed for updates.

Yoono is real easy to use and a powerful system for your favourite bookmarks, although you have to download the program I’d like it to be online like Chipmarks (although Chipmarks isn’t quite as sophisticated).
But what I like about Chipmarks is that it is portable, and that’s what we at least want in a web 2.0 environment, stuff to be web-based and even integrated into your browser, etc…of course along with sharing and discovery which Yoono is all about.

So what does Yoono do, well firstly export your favourites into Yoono

When you are done managing your bookmarks (sorting, discovering, sharing, adding, deleting, etc…) you can sync them back to your PC.

Filter for:

- empty folders
- watch folders of others (based on the same theme as one of your folders)
- share a folder/s (publish) allow people to subscribe to updates
- see duplicate URL’s in your collection
- make folders private (Yoono will not record its contents)
- check dead links

Make new folders, and delete folders/items

When you add bookmarks, you are automatically alerted about similar sites

Send an email of a bookmark or a folder of bookmarks, or copy it to paste as HTML

Search folder and bookmark titles

Search all of Yoono (social search engine)..results also return subject experts based on the keyword

Click on a folder or a bookmark, and click “See Suggestions” to see a list of similar stuff, then add these to your favourites
Even type in a URL, and see suggestions, it returns similar sites, and experts (published folders from other users)

Click on an expert and view they folders they are sharing (publish), subscribe away.
Search for users - find an expert (folders they publish)

In the community tab check “My Subscriptions” and there live your subscriptions and your publications (folders you share)

Then there is “My News”, this is an RSS Reader

- view by day, folder, all feeds, unread feeds
- add a feed
- filter

You can also host a forum or community based around the subject of your published folders

So the alert functions are:

- subscribing to your favourite feeds (as it has an RSS Reader component)
- subscribe to similar URL’s added by other users based on the theme of one of your bookmarks or folder/s
- subscribe to others users folders
- alerted of dead links

There is also a toolbar or bookmarklet to access similar sites and experts related to the page you’re browsing

You can import OPML files

Coming soon, from the website:

“Create your own press review (available soon)
Create your very own press review by publishing an RSS feed containing your comments on web sites, selections of articles you have read in your news and comments you have associated with your bookmarks.”

Robin Good has the low down on Squidoo.

Squidoo is like creating your own topic page, similar to how a library creates Subject Information Guides or Pathfinders…or even like your own about.com…more from the Squidoo blog.

Here are some examples (there are also more at the end of the e-book mentioned below).

Here is an e-book explaining our search woes and how Squidoo relieves you from poking around the web.

As Seth explains a Lens (a topic you make make in Squidoo, well they don’t have to be topics they can be your own profile page, whatever) is different to a blog as it doesn’t hold content it points to content.

But it is as easy as a blog to set-up, without Squidoo it’s much harder to set up a webpage.

Seth points out what we truely do when we surf the web…we may be researching a product for example so we poke around looking for prices, reviews…how do we do this, we search Google with a search term and slug through the results, maybe something like Clusty is better as results are in clusters.

After a long time we compile all our research, make an analysis, and prepare to make a decision…but has the Google ranking helped us to find stuff about our product, what if there are hundreds of thousands of hits.

Anyway, as an alternative you can now go to Squidoo, type in your search term, and hopefully find a topic page for what you are after…why bother researching when someone has done all the ground work.

From the e-book in relation to using a search engine:

“You’re not seeking the answer at first - first you want to understand the meaning behind your choices”

“Not only does word of mouth give us confidence in a decision, it acts as a filter. It gets rid of the extraneous and presents just the focused good stuff”

“After looking at a bunch of links and pages, then finally, you get it. You understand enough to take action-to buy something or make a decision. The thing is, this takes a long time. The Web ought to accelerate and even replicate that word of mouth phenomenon that works so well in the real world”

“…the first version of the Web is still focused on poking. It will always be. It delivers matches, but it doesn’t deliver meaning”

Of course there are webpages out there that already do this, but how do we know which ones they are in our Google results, with Squidoo they are all in one spot…also the ease of creating these topic pages will increase the quantity made compared to what’s out there presently.

The only thing I can think so far that is similar to Squidoo is About.com, but then this isn’t collaborative, Squidoo is made by the people for the people…Wikipedia is a similar idea but these aren’t one stop topic pages, these are encyclopedia entries, they are restricted to this concept.

So we have gone from collecting and sharing links in del.icio.us to expanding that concept to a list of links in Wink, MemeFlow, and JetEye, to a topic hub page or Lens in Squidoo.

It seems looking at the sample Lens that you will be able to tag them, so maybe they will live in a type of folksonomy environment (related tags, related Lenses, Tag cloud, neighbourhood), give ratings (social ranking), subscribe to a Lens with RSS, and LensRoll a Lens.

Lenses will rank well in search engine results as they are considered authoritative, and the webpages they point to will rank higher because they are being pointed to by an authoritative source…so what happens when Lenses are pointing to each other, top ranking for everyone…see more on Hub and Authorities.

There is also ways to make money with a Lens…read the e-book is great stuff!