Post Scraping

I think Revit OpEd is part of a pretty narrow slice of life on the internets. Having that opinion, I find it bewildering how much comment spam it receives. Even more so that there is another blog out there that just scrapes off my stuff here and posts it on their own as their own.

I used to have a link on my list of BIM blogs that pointed to the site, removed it today. Beginning in 2013 it has apparently shifted from writing original work to just using mine. There isn't any older work, copied or original, there now either.

Since the comments are most likely generated by web-bots I imagine this is also true of the blog in question. I'm writing this to see if they scrape this post and add it to their own too. If they do it will prove to me that there isn't an actual person doing the work of creating the replication of my work.

Plagiarism by blog: Revit Tutorials

This was brought to my attention by a fellow blogger and AUGI member. The www. revittut .blogspot.com has been posting articles for some time now. The trouble is that the articles are not their own. Some are mine, the rest or at least many belong to others.

Specifically their use of my articles on their site violates my creative commons license which allows you/anyone free use of the information as long as attribution to the author/me is provided.

Their site also violates blogger's terms and conditions regarding copyright material.

It is good to share knowledge but it is wrong to do so appearing to offer original work when the opposite is true. The site has a lot of click through advertising and seems to be have been created to generate click through income with a minimum of effort by posting content authored by others.

There are many people sharing knowledge about Revit via blogs and other means on the internet these days. It is disappointing to see one using other author's work as their own.