ergophobe
msg:4232288 | 8:51 am on Nov 19, 2010 (gmt 0) |
Unless it's some sort of private information or the site owner is an expert who thinks her site no longer has valid info, I couldn't care less whether the site owner no longer wants to see the information. Taking your site offline to remove the information from the web is roughly like an author trying to round up copies of her book and get them off the shelves.
That said, if you do a search can you not find better info that's still online?
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bouncybunny
msg:4232324 | 11:36 am on Nov 19, 2010 (gmt 0) |
| That said, if you do a search can you not find better info that's still online? |
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Sometimes. But in this case it's a unique solution to a problem, so has some academic interest.
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ergophobe
msg:4233287 | 3:45 am on Nov 22, 2010 (gmt 0) |
followup question: could your write a good, hopefully better article on the topic yourself?
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milosevic
msg:4233524 | 10:31 am on Nov 22, 2010 (gmt 0) |
I would say what ergophobe says is what to do.
If this content is useful and not around on the net anymore, you would be doing a big service to your own site and it's users by rewriting it for your own site.
I can't see anything ethically wrong with doing this, particularly when contrasted with the content scraping and article spinning that's like a plague nowadays.
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bouncybunny
msg:4237298 | 11:26 am on Dec 1, 2010 (gmt 0) |
Good questions.
Yes, I suppose I could. But the article in question was linked partly as a source to backup another article, so it would take some reorganisation. In particular, the subject matter is somewhat... how shall I put this... out of my skillset. A bit like a builder linking to a technical article written by an architect.
And, actually, the whole site was pretty unique. It's a shame it has gone really.
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Status_203
msg:4237786 | 10:37 am on Dec 2, 2010 (gmt 0) |
Any chance of tracking down the original author and asking if you can "archive" the article yourself, on your site?
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ergophobe
msg:4238135 | 1:54 am on Dec 3, 2010 (gmt 0) |
Actually, funny you should say that. I recently reconnected with an old friend who had archived one of my old pages for a long-dead site. He republished it (with attribution) and it pinged my wife's Google Alert or something.... anyway, now we're connected on Facebook and that old page has a home :-)
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bouncybunny
msg:4238797 | 1:22 am on Dec 5, 2010 (gmt 0) |
I possibly could try and track them down, but considering the site has been down for over a year I suspect it would take quite a lot of effort.
Thanks for the suggestions everyone.
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