I thought Scoble was already using full text of posts in his link blog (I’ve seen at least some full text of a few of our posts anyway), but it seems that may not be the case from reading his recent entry:

My link blog is back up, but we’re having some troubles with the algorithm that chooses the portion of the post to include there. Kunal’s working on it. It might be a good time to go to full-text. Kunal, on the other hand, wants to go to titles only. Uses a lot less bandwidth.

The issue of whether to use somebody else’s full text is a thorny one legally, which someone already raised in the comments area. I do remember him having a similar conversation before and he said that (paraphrasing) if he couldn’t use the full text then he wouldn’t link up the blog at all. This shut up several of the people who were complaining if my memory serves. Tit for tat.

Since I know he reads this blog: thank you for the linkup yesterday, Scoble and your continued linkups on your link blog! Yesterday, between your links as well as TabletPCBuzz also giving this blog a prime spot, it was a record traffic day here where we picked up a couple new subscribers (bloglines and bloglet [email]) as well as a couple sponsor sales as well. I like it!



So with this in mind do I care in any shape or form if Scoble uses full text posts from this blog? No way! I added Kunal (his link blog) to my hotlink-ok list awhile back when I noticed that the images from here were being blocked (All unauthorized domains are blocked from hotlinking images by default, but we will remove for RSS aggregators or special circumstances, just contact us for details if you’re seeing broken images). Clearly, folks are clicking over even when the full text contents are there and as long as things work that way and there is clear attribution, then Scoble won’t hear any complaints from me.

I do have one complaint, Scoble and it is for your Typepad powered Red Couch blog (also this happens at Shel’s It Seems To Me blog too), it would sure be nice if when I left a comment there it didn’t constantly tell me my entry looks like spam (I can’t leave this blog URL, so it must be tied to the domain).



I have never spammed Shel or Scoble’s blogs so it seems like either somebody threw a switch (accidentally?) with my IP and/or their Typepad comment spam filter is set to be wayyyy too anal. Heck, they just linked to me from the blog itself (well, Robert, not Shel) so I don’t know why they’d block this very same URL from showing up in their comments?

Anyway, I’m thinking it is not a diss (is it?) and just another 6A problem, so maybe one of them could kindly look this over when they get a second? BTW, I can leave comments at other Typepad and MT blogs with no problem. Thank you!

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