I want to make a site that consists entirely of RSS headlines. Kinda like http://rss.gregarius.net, but with ads (of course...). I'm not talking about scraping entire sites. Just publishing their latest RSS headlines - or at worst, if a full feed is available, their latest post. All with source links of course... Kinda like a compilation of my favourite blogs, all in the one place, almost like a directory. 1.What is the general opinion on this? 2.What are the copyright implications of doing this? 3.Everyone else is doing it, so why shouldn't I? Mods: I posted this over at the RSS forum, but the lights have gone out over there...
1. I think latest RSS headlines are fine, but publishing the full post... nah ah.. 2. Just linking to the post won't result to copyright infringement. But posting full feeds, I think you should ask the owners of the content before publishing. Just to be sure. 3. You won't be unique!
1. What if they only offer a 'full content' feed? Should I cut it short? EDIT: And what about those full feeds that are 'ad supported' e.g gizmodo ... should I just go ahead and use them?
In certain ways it does work. If you do decide to select the very best from a particular niche, and put up snippets on your site, there could be a audience for your site. A place with everything under one roof is something that everyone looks out for. As for the copyright implications, there shouldn't be any since you are only using a line or two ( from the feed that they offer on their own site). Plus if you could drive some quality traffic to their site, I don't think they should mind.
I agree with BoardWalk, don't take the entire post, just the headlines... Unless you've got the author's permission... I've got a blog RSS, and I'd be mad if someone was taking my content instead of just posting the headline and a link...
What should I do about blogs that ONLY provide full content feeds? Should I just leave them out? Don't most of the big players put ads in their full feeds specifically for when people like me republish them? I'd like to include blogs like Engadget, but they only provide a full feed, which includes the entire post (images and all...). What I'm planning on doing, is making something kinda like gadgetaddict[dot]com - (not my site!)
As long as there was a link back to credit the original article I wouldn't have a problem with it, full feed or not
I'm surprised that I wasn't flooded with "don't do it" replies. Good news for me I guess. I'll get to work
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Yes, that's the same Gregarius I'm talking about. There's also an AdSense pluign for Gregarius, so people are already doing what I want to do (kinda). Because I already write content for about 10 sites, and I want to make a "headlines site" that updates itself. I don't have the time to become an international news reporter The general consensus seems to be that it's OK to use feeds, as long I'm not using full feeds or entire posts, and as long as I provide a source/backlink.