Posts tagged ‘annoyances’

Scraping

At least, that’s what I think it’s called.  When a blog uses your content on another site.  I keep getting pingbacks from blogs with the following text:

Why I FAILED wrote an interesting post today on Heres a quick
excerptNo Reason At All 6th October 2007, 04:00 pm There is absolutely no reason for
this particular;

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Bit of a Rant to Start Us Off With

Here’s one to kick off proceedings. And has me jumping on a bandwagon.

When I get to the station of a morning, I pick up a Metro - a free paper from the Daily Mail stable. I get a cartoon, some news and Sudoku. And that does me. I then, in the spirit of community, dump it on the luggage rack so that someone else can read it. This is both acceptable and normal.

When I get off the train it’s a new story. Firstly, the City A.M. newspaper people are everywhere. Often you have 2 off them on either side of a pavement. You end up running the gauntlet every morning.
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