Martin, Thank you for your detailed reply.
I had hoped my site would be a comprehensive list of events within a certain category. Let us say Craft Fairs and because of the searching I would provide, a user could select all Craft Fairs in the Cornwall area for the next 12 months. If each event was an hCalendar, then they could right click to add all to a Google Calendar and publish that Google Calendar. If I had hoped to generate some sort of advertising revenue from my original site, then this would potentially dilute that income stream. They could similarly data-scrape the page and reformat and publish, but that would be more difficult. So my fear was/is, am I making it too easy to acquire my lists or should I take it as a compliment and not worry. I was also looking at doing something similar with hListing for a classifieds' site. Many thanks again for your excellent reply. Tim On 16 August 2010 23:12, Martin McEvoy <mar...@weborganics.co.uk> wrote: > On 16/08/2010 19:24, Tim's Trees wrote: >> >> Thank you all for your full and quick replies. > > You are welcome .... > >> You were right, the >> original was a complete mismatch of quotes and once I had fixed those >> it displayed in Chrome and Operator:Firefox. I apologise for not >> spotting that. > > :) > >> I have noted the urls you have recommended and will investigate those >> first in future. >> >> I am wanting to create an event site and I had the idea, I should have >> my entries in hCalendar format, but I am now worrying, that it may be >> too easy to clone my site, with a right click. Do you have any >> opinions on this ? > > Im a little unsure of what you mean if you mean by cloning perhaps you mean > spoofing? ( copying a website possibly for fraud such as phishing or > email-spoofing ) it doesn't really happen *too* much in the real world > unless your site is a bank or it offers online payments in some way (e.g. > PayPal), In which case I wouldn't worry to much about that. Having said all > that Social Networking sites (Facebook/MySpace) are becoming targets for > these kind of attacks nowadays. > > If you are worried about people copy and pasting from your website, unless > its copyrighted material, again don't worry too much, Id take that as a > compliment, the majority of people who *do* copy and paste tend to be just > learning. If its for anything else the stuff they are copying will never do > them any good as far as search engines are concerned because *you* published > the data *first*. Some search engines (google) will actually remove pages > that contain duplicate content from their listings, or it will bury the > duplicate content so deep in their listings that there is no way anyone will > ever see it anyway. > > The rule of thumb concerning microformats is, If you use microformats on > your website you can expect your data to be shared, crawled and Indexed by > practically anything that can consume microformats, If you don't want this > to happen, say because your data is private or something sensitive, then > don't use microformats. Dont let that last part put you off though, sharing > your data, particularly events and contact details, *is* a good thing. > > Hope all that helps rest your mind a little. > > Best wishes > > -- > Martin McEvoy > > _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss