In the meantime, I think that people have been implicitly inferring that: partial feed attribute=only use partial content and full feed it is ok to display the entire content with attribution and reference to the source. But if some people are offended by this, we should go the extra step and clarify it further in the feed.

@tony: given that it is the end user which is importing your feed in shyftr, it would be operationally impossible for shyftr to contact every RSS feed owner and get an explicit approval to display the content included in the RSS feed. Operationally, it is much easier for people who would like their content not displayed to publish a partial feed.

If we do not go through this discussion and find a model where both people like you and people like Frederic, Louis, Scoble (who do not care about having their content being syndicated because what they care most is to have a share of the user attention), it is the end user which is going to pay the price because services will be forced the same constraint (show only partial content, which is what shyftr ended up rolling back to) and a large number of users really hate that.

But I suppose like the issue of “A-lists: do they exist” and “Can you have a blog without comments”, there are some memes that never die.

And I think if you’re looking for differences, Plaxo’s business plan doesn’t rely on one aspect of it (Pulse) pulling full feeds. Furthermore, its a relatively private service (splitting hairs, I know) that is behind a login.

But the fact that its monetizing someone else’s content? Yeah, I have an issue with that as well, if you want me to be consistent.

I wonder if it wouldn’t be easy to just add a tag to an RSS feed saying whether it’s ok or not to republish (fully or partly), use the feed in aggregators etc. Wouldn’t be hard to add, I think.

@Sarah – I guess I have just given up on trying to keep track of the discussions. I see the discussions on the blog, in FriendFeed and Yokway. If I miss something, I’m ok with that.

Original: Who Owns This Conversation?
http://therealmccrea.wordpress.com/2008/04/12/who-owns-this-conversation/

Plaxo Pulse: Who Owns This Conversation?
http://pulse.plaxo.com/pulse/events/show/43867506

So… Shyftr is being unfairly thrown under the bus, big time. This is called innovation, period. A year from now, this won’t raise an eye.

The difference between Techmeme, Friendfeed, and RSSMeme vs. Tolou and Shyftr is that the latter group lifts your *entire* post.

The former only lifts a portion, which, I think is “fair” (use) any way you want to define it.