The Blog Peoria Network

I’ve installed a new plugin that’s available for use by members.

It’s called “WP-Autoblog.” It’s designed to automatically add content to your blog. This is how it works: Once activated, you enter an RSS or Atom field into a form found on the “Options” panel. The plugin takes the results and posts them on your blog. The results can be an excerpt of the entry or the full entry, and the original author can be mentioned/liked or not.

Folks, this plugin has the potential to be used for scraping — blogs that contain nothing but content stolen from other blogs. But that doesn’t have to be the case, I’m using it on heinleinblog to generate links of interest to Heinlein fans. I’m using the RSS feed for a Google News search for “Robert Heinlein.” I use the results to create original entries that go beyond the sort of “scraping” that you see so often these days. This requires a bit of editing AND adding content after the entry appears on my site.

Anyone can use this if they want, But PLEASE be careful.

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