Trixie Diggs CSS Trix and Web 2.0 Scams, Spam
Hehe, so a contributor (Steve Mallett) to the Oreilly Web 2.0 juggernaut has (according to steveisbad.blogspot) ripped the CSS from 2.1 posterchilld digg, then diggs his itunes verticalisation of digg on digg, and then bloggers get onto the story and digg the rip, in a call for the jugular way. Hehe, just the right level of postmodernism for me. SteveisBad.Blogspot : "Digg should sue the shit out of this guy. This is just sad, especially from a O’Reilly writer. But wait, there is more. Not only is he steal digg code, he is also spamming his sites on digg" You Decide. Jeremy Zawdony certainly wouldnt mind getting digg into Yahoo : "There's little question that Digg is one of the most likely candidates to take the lead from Slashdot. The numbers seem to bear that out. But what's more interesting to me is why Slashdot is on its way out...After a while, you start to wonder why Slashdot's small group of dictators (err, I mean "editors") are qualified to decide what's interesting news...."
Kinger Update, Ta : O'Reilly Radar : "The real story is that Steve's iTunesLove.com and LinuxFilter sites are built on Pligg, an open source project that recreates the user, story, and voting backends behind Digg. Pligg in turn is based on a Spanish Digg clone, Menéame, and Menéame is where the copying originally took place. Pligg copied Digg's CSS files, so Steve's sites had them too. Steve had assumed the open source code didn't violate copyrights, as we all do, and was surprised to learn otherwise. Things were muddied because Steve had been automatically submitting stories from his other sites to Digg (because a Digg front-page story gets a lot of traffic), which leant credence to the claim of "spammer" made by the poster of the "Steve's stealing Digg's CSS" post. The main claim of stealing CSS was superficially true, but substantially false."
Kinger Update, Ta : O'Reilly Radar : "The real story is that Steve's iTunesLove.com and LinuxFilter sites are built on Pligg, an open source project that recreates the user, story, and voting backends behind Digg. Pligg in turn is based on a Spanish Digg clone, Menéame, and Menéame is where the copying originally took place. Pligg copied Digg's CSS files, so Steve's sites had them too. Steve had assumed the open source code didn't violate copyrights, as we all do, and was surprised to learn otherwise. Things were muddied because Steve had been automatically submitting stories from his other sites to Digg (because a Digg front-page story gets a lot of traffic), which leant credence to the claim of "spammer" made by the poster of the "Steve's stealing Digg's CSS" post. The main claim of stealing CSS was superficially true, but substantially false."
posted by redbarren at 10:14 AM
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