BITACLE

Update 3: here.

Update 2: I re-address Bitacle here.

Update: In the article below I express a concern that Bitacle may be infringing on copyrights in the way they display feeds. Upon further inspection and thanks to David @ Bitacle I find my concerns to be unfounded. Should your entire blog posts be shown in Bitacle then the problem lies in the fact that you have set your RSS feed to contain entire posts. If this is a problem for you then reset your RSS feed and all will be fine.

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I found yet another search engine/RSS reader today. As to whether or not it’s any better than any of the others... well, I simply can’t say.

One thing that did bother me about my minutes with BITACLE was the fact that with the exception of some of the big media companies like the BBC and The Washington Post, all the blog entries I saw there were displayed in their entirety. I’m not sure whose fault this is-- blogging platform, individual blogger, or BITACLE-- but I do know that putting your entire post in your RSS feed is sho’nuff a sure-fire way to REDUCE traffic to your blog or website. Why buy the cow when milk is free, right? Even a post from Gizmodo could be read in its entity (photos and all) without ever going to the Gizmodo site.

This problem might be solved by changing the settings on your blog’s RSS feed to short, but a better way is to switch your blog to a modern blogging platform like Squarespace that allows for customizing your feeds to say anything you like. (Those who came here via a feed reader or web based aggregator already know that my RSS excerpt contained NONE of the content shown on this page.) And if my entire post does show up in a feed reader or online aggregator, then I’ll be contacting a copyright lawyer, ASAP.

Truth be told, having your entire post display in your feed might bring you some more readers, but why settle when customized feeds can bring you lots more readers? Get with the program and watch your readership grow.

Comments

[David @ Bitacle]

Hi Billy.

We index all the data that contain the feed. If you don't publish a XML file we can't index it. In addition, if we archive the feed always we respect the author's copyright.

"As to whether or not it’s any better than any of the others... well, I simply can’t say."

You can say 'yes' because Bitacle it's very different than others like Netvibes. In Bitacle you have a RSS reader / aggregator but also you have a starting page, the biggest archive of blogs, a search engine and with the time we expect to have more great functionalities and modules.

Thanks for the review.

Regards.
David.

[Billy The Blogging Poet]

David,
Thanks for clearing things up. Many bloggers simply do a poor job of controling their RSS feeds. As long as all you're doing is displaying RSS feeds and not scraping content then all is well. And upon further inspection I see all is well. I'm updating my post to reflect the added information. Thanks for stopping by and thanks for the ever increasing traffic I get via Bitacle.

[Navin]

Hi,
even my blog has been posted in its entirety. Any suggestion on how do I publish only synopsis and not the contents of the post.

Please check this->
http://en.bitacle.org/blogs/viewblog/7kmw9poo0/65

I do not want people to view the posts at this site. As of now I do not see any option of changing feeds at my end.
any suggestions pointers would be helpful.

thnx for your time.

[Billy The Blogging Poet]

Navin,
If I were to know what type of blog software your blog uses then myself or one of my readers could probably make suggestions but as you left no URL that points to your blog I really can't say.

[Valerie]

I really don't think so. Whether or not I publish my whole content in feeds is my prerogative. It is still licensed All Rights Reserved and here comes bitacle and they take all my content and images and republish them without permission and change my license from All Rights Reserved to a Creative Commons. Even if I used excerpt only, I would not want this happening. My content is my content whether or not it's published in whole or part.

[Mike]

Bitacle is just a scumbag scraper site that is quickly building up a lot of hatred towards them. They're stealing content and trying to make money off it--pure and simple.

It's not the fault of the RSS setup and they know it. Scraping is scraping and copyright violation is copyright violation.