Comments on: BlogBurst Goes Live!

By: Dee’s-Planet! » BlogBurst Officially Goes Live

Dee’s-Planet! » BlogBurst Officially Goes Live — Thu, 25 May 2006 21:01:30 +0000

[…] We are now in a position to begin tracking and reporting blogger pick up by publishers, as well as to promote more topical blogs to more content areas of publisher sites. So, we should start seeing a larger variety of blogger syndication in the coming weeks and months. We will also be rolling out more publisher partners and begin displaying your blogs on more of our current partners who are gearing up to start the service, including Washingtonpost.com and Parade Magazine. So keep up the good blogging and we will continue to take your feedback to improve the service. Tags: […]

By: Razib Ahmed

Razib Ahmed — Wed, 10 May 2006 11:20:16 +0000

I am happy that we have a lot of questions and BlogBurst is trying to address most of the issues. What I feel is that BlogBurst is taking blogging literally to the next level. Now my 2 blogs are displayed in the mainstream media and yesterday one of my blogs has around 4500 headlines impressions. I admit that the actual clicks were almost virtually none but this matter did not discourage me because of two factos. Firstly, I am happy that my blog is displayed in the top rated mainstream media houses. Secondly, I have seen in my blogging experience that it takes time to build a good base and BlogBurst is just few days old. Finally, now BlogBurst is talking about the idea of a compensation model.

In the end, I like to say that if BlogBurst fails to live upto the expectation and deliver some good benefits to the bloggers then this service will become dead anyway but BlogBurst has opened a new window of opportunity for the blogger. I am sure some other companies will follow this idea in the coming days and the bloggers will be benfitted in the long run.

By: admin

admin — Mon, 08 May 2006 14:09:07 +0000

Continuing to clarify the speculation: If your blog is suspended, your posts are no longer accessible to anyone else in the system: Your blog can no longer be discovered and your posts are automatically removed from any of our hosted widgets on publishers sites. New posts from suspended blogs will continue to flow into your profile on BlogBurst, but the only place you will see them is on your personal blog profile page - this is based on the assumption that a suspended blog may want to re-activate at some point. If you delete your blog, all content is removed from BlogBurst and no new posts will flow into the system, but you will have to go through the re-verification process if you re-add your blog again later.

By: Dr.O

Dr.O — Mon, 08 May 2006 06:20:52 +0000

TalkLeft:

We have removed our site from the service. Please note that we think, that if you place your blog in *suspend*, BlogBurst still can claim your content. According to the agreement, for as long as you have any relationship with BlogBurst, they can claim a “derivative work” of your content. And as you can see, in their view, “derivative work” means a full post, full title and a full picture. And, probably, your bandwidth.

By: Jacqueline

Jacqueline — Sun, 07 May 2006 04:34:45 +0000

I see that food writers are on the wish list. Epicurious.com editor, Tanya Wenman Steel just noted my blog in her Epi-log.

Ideas on how to maximize this? I updated my profile to highlight it…I’m excited about the potential of this model. *Fingers crossed.*

By: TalkLeft

TalkLeft — Fri, 05 May 2006 18:36:12 +0000

I am concrned about the hot-linking of images using my bandwidth and the reprinting of the entire text of my posts. I thought my posts would just appear in the sidebars of news sites with a link to my site for people to read the entire article. I don’t intend to write for newspaper readers for free. I don’t want them co-opting my posts as their own.

Should I withdraw from the service?

By: MindControl

MindControl — Fri, 05 May 2006 14:43:37 +0000

I also disagree with Dr. O. The BlogBurst model makes bloggers true content contributors and puts our voice into the mainstream media. The link and abstract model you describe can be done by publishers today, just by using your RSS feed. If that was useful they would already be doing it and wouldn’t need a full fledged service like BlogBurst.

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 05 May 2006 14:26:55 +0000

The AP writers are directly reimbursed for their content. The bloggers are not, at best, they are indirectly rewarded.

By: CyberCoder

CyberCoder — Fri, 05 May 2006 11:25:56 +0000

Dr. O

I am another blogger, and I disagree. (IMHO)

The model has been around a lot longer than the internet. It is just like the News Wires, such as the AP and Rueters. The difference is that it was not as visible, since most people did not read 2 newspapers from different cities.

When you read your local paper you may not even notice that the article you read said it was written by an AP writer, but, that same article was also in 1000 other local papers at the same time.

Why is this any different ?

Especially since it is served through JavaScript and not crawled by the spiders of the net.

By: Dr.O

Dr.O — Fri, 05 May 2006 00:37:19 +0000

Eric:

The thing is that I want your service to succeed: you have, overall, a great business idea. Unfortunately, I think that taking someone’s entire content is plain wrong way to do this business. Would newspaper ever agree to participate in Free-Giveaway-of-Content-for-Clicks scheme? No, they would not. Neither will blogs that respect themselves: the content is the most precious thing they have. Simply providing an excerpt followed by “Read more here…” with a link to the blog, would solve any issues. Your recommendation–”to use links in your content to drive readers of a post back to your blog”–is a wrong way to deal with issues. The problem is in your business model, not in our content.

The debate is not over yet…

P.S. Thank you for answering my question about Google ranking issues.