{"id":1097,"date":"2007-06-05T12:07:33","date_gmt":"2007-06-05T12:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/sharing-or-stealing-you-be-the-judge\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T22:04:38","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T03:04:38","slug":"sharing-or-stealing-you-be-the-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/sharing-or-stealing-you-be-the-judge\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharing or Stealing: You be the judge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aggregating and sharing content is a wonderful benefit of the web2.0 (whatever that means) era. However, the feed aggregation and sharing protocols used by the Human Capital Institute appear to cross a not so fine line between sharing and stealing. As Harold Jarche writes in his blog today, the Human Capital Institute includes his blog in their website&#39;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humancapitalinstitute.org\/hci\/research_blogs_directory.guid\">blog roll<\/a>. When visitors click on <em><strong>his name<\/strong><\/em> in the blog roll, they are given <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humancapitalinstitute.org\/hci\/login.guid?_return=research_blogs_directory.guid&amp;_protected=true\">this message<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div align=\"justify\">\n\t<em>&quot;Free HCI Membership &#8211; You are attempting to access an HCI resource that is reserved for Members. If you are already a member, please enter your email address and password below to login. If you aren&#39;t a member yet please press the <strong>Become A Member<\/strong><\/em> button below to start the quick and easy process of becoming a member. You will be brought back to your desired destination when the process is complete.&quot;\n\t<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\n<br \/>\nAt<em> <u>best<\/u><\/em>, this practice is an unprofessional misuse of a new fangled feed sharing technology that misrepresents another person&#39;s work as <em><strong>their<\/strong><\/em> &quot;resource&quot;. At <u><em>worst<\/em><\/u>, it is old fashioned stealing. I feel that by referring to Harold&#39;s work as an &quot;HCI resource&quot;, they don&#39;t just teeter on a fine line between sharing and stealing &#8211; they stomp all over it before dashing well into the dark side. <\/p>\n<p>Had I stumbled upon this message,&nbsp; I would have assumed that Harold is a knowing contributor to the site. However, based on the title and contents of Harold&#39;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jarche.com\/?p=1188\">&quot;RSS Feed Stealing?&quot;<\/a> post, he clearly is not. <\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/aggregation\" class=\"performancingtags\">aggregation<\/a>, <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/RSS\" class=\"performancingtags\">RSS<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aggregating and sharing content is a wonderful benefit of the web2.0 (whatever that means) era. 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