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Re: A word about Reblog

raincoaster — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 07:55:52 -0000

Thanks. I concluded the Zemanta feature was involved because it's the only post that's been scraped recently and it is the only one with the pixie on it. Perhaps I was wrong; I do see you can choose only one paragraph at a time.

In any case, they took the post down and are now snipping only one line at a time from the other blogs they're referencing.
http://raincoaster.com/2009...

Thanks for your quick reply.

Re: A word about Reblog

Andraz Tori — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 10:04:50 -0000

Zemanta reblog feature cannot be used for scrapping entire post, since it always requires user to choose one single paragraph when he tries to reblog. I think the scrappers you are seeing aren't using Reblog, but are doing plain copy&paste or copying from your feed. Naturally I might be wrong, so if you have any indicator they really are using reblog somehow, let me know.

Independently from the above, you can easily change reblog button to one saying "Zemified" or to invisible one inside your Zemanta Preferences. This way there will be no Zemanta Reblog functionality available for your post.

bye
Anrdaz Tori, CTO at Zemanta

Re: A word about Reblog

raincoaster — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 09:24:21 -0000

I love Zemanta, but have found the very useful pixie reblog feature to be abused by blog scrapers, who steal (instead of a snippet) the entire post. Other than trackbacks and Google searches, is there a way to prevent or deal with this unintended side-effect?

Re: A word about Reblog

daryn — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:10:46 -0000

I just discovered Zemanta via AVC.com, and it kicks ass! Great job guys.

Re: A word about Reblog

simian downtime analyst — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:19:27 -0000

First of all, I love Zemanta. I have been using it almost the whole time it has existed. I had to manually tag something on Zazzle yesterday and it was just plain weird that Zemanta couldn't do it for me.
I do have a question about the pixie/reblog button. I am using the WordPress plugin and since I use Zemanta for all my posts, is there a way I can just have to Reblog button relocated somewhere else (preferably next to the Sharethis button right under the posts) and not have the pixie pop up in the content area?