Please leave a comment on this post and let us know what you think about The Nigerian Super Blog
We are actively seeking and implementing ideas, tips andfeedback from visitors to The Nigerian Super Blog (NSB)
Please tell us what you think about NSB.
What we want:
We agree that some of you may not be happy with the way we are reusing your blog content, so here’s our deal:
Because we are still making several modifications to our website, we would prefer if you tell us how you want us to use your content.
If we cannot make these changes in a timely manner, then we shall remove your blog pronto!
All you need to do is leave a comment for this post containing the URL of your blog:
P.s: please be constructive (rather than destructive) in your criticism. We are very willing to learn from you.
Allow us to proffer our SINCEREST apologies for using your blog on The Nigerian Super Blog without express permission from you.
Please understand that it is NOT and NEVER SHALL BE our intention to “steal” bloggers content or republish their posts in an unauthorised manner.
The super blog is 17 days old today and we have been receiving a whole lot of feedback (both positive and negative, including yours). These comments have helped us so far in improving upon what we have on ground.
While we do not claim to “know it all” in terms of the usage of this technology, we are actively soliciting feedback from bloggers and readers on our methods so that we can improve and eventually modify the website into something that will be right for everyone in terms of usability and legality.
Apparently, our methods so far has gone down well with a lot of people yet there are exceptions like yours which we take VERY SERIOUSLY.
Once again, accept our MOST SINCERE APOLOGIES for using your content in a manner that has not gone down well with you.
Be informed that we removed your blog from our listings (therefore your posts will no longer show up on the Super Blog) and we are currently in the process of deleting all archived posts from your blog in our database.
Before I close this message though, I wish to make some remarks/clarifications regarding certain specific portions of your post.
No contact information is available on your website
Thanks for this observation. We are sorry about this and shall make the necessary amendments that shall make contacting us easier. We have also decided to include a link on the Super Blog that would allow people to request removal of their blog from the service.
The WHOIS info for the domain name does not contain the contact info of its real owner
The physical address in our whois information BELONGS to the parent company of the project. The email address belongs to our hosts (siteground.com)
I have already left a comment on one of your blog entries but have not heard from you.
Unfortunately we never saw this comment 
It is indeed true that blog aggregators help bring more traffic to one’s blog but yours is not an aggregator
You got that right, ours is not an aggregator. We are only trying to aggregate in a different way.
You’re simply copying and pasting my full blog posts which is completely unacceptable.
Accept our apologies but we are not exactly copying and pasting.
Real blog aggregators use RSS feeds. I have set my RSS feed to only share parts of my blog posts and not the full thing.
Do you really think we can MANUALLY go through 221 blogs every hour, check for updates and then copy and paste onto our blog? My brother, only a mad man would do that I can assure you.
FYI, we use the FeedWordpress plugin for WordPress to automatically aggregate blog content from the RSS feeds of all the blogs in our blogroll every hour. Once again, we use the RSS feeds for each blog.
We do have some blogs that are currently publishing excerpts of their posts as RSS feeds and this also show up as EXCERPTS on the Super Blog. If yours does not show up as an excerpt then it must be due to some other reason and not because we are copying and pasting manually!
But all the same, we do not say this as a justification and still maintain our apologies to you!
NB. My blog is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 License. Yours is not.
Because the content we use does not belong to us, and because different bloggers publish under different licenses, we do not have the authority to license the content.
And finally, The NaijaLive is a volunteer project and the people behind NaijaLive are a friendly and happy group and it is not our intention to step on toes, break rules, look illegal or make people angry. If we are going about things the wrong way, we are very sorry but none of it was done on purpose. This is why we are ACTIVELY soliciting feedback from readers and visitors. We want to learn.
The project is still VERY VERY much in its infantile stage with most of the work being done on weekends. To learn more about this project, please see the post here: About the NaijaLive Project
We love your blog and we’d LOVE any ideas from you!
