Here at Pilgrim’s Progress Today we
take curation seriously. The internet was built and founded on linking,
sharing, and recommending great stories from other sources on the web.
Curation, to us, means finding interesting, well-written, and highly
appropriate articles for our readers. By choosing an article from your site, we
are giving it our vote of approval.
This not only means that we excerpt your
article, we also give it our highest recommendation, and we direct our readers
… in every case … to view your article on your website. Our curation is
designed to send our readers to your site and your articles. We curated and
excerpted your article because it was outstanding in some way.
If, for any reason, you wish us not
to excerpt your stories, simply contact us, and request your story be taken
down. We will immediately and without exception comply with your takedown
request, and put you on our list of sites never to excerpt from.
Excerpting Policy
Most online publishers recognize the
value of having their stories and articles
● quoted
● commented on
● debated
● discussed
● linked to
● new readers encouraged to the
articles
Social sharing of online content
only extends the reach, impact, and ultimately the effectiveness and
profitability of the original publisher’s website. We are excerpting your
content to inform our visitors, and to point them to the original source of the
excerpt.
To be frank … we want our readers to
discover and visit your content, and your website.
We Want You To Be Pleased We
Excerpted An Article From You
Standards, practices, and legal
decisions about “Fair Use” are still evolving online. Ourstandards are higher
than the merely legal. We hold ourselves to much higher standards than Fair
Use.
We want Delighted Use
If you are not delighted to be
excerpted and linked to by our site, just let us know. We will take action
immediately. We excerpt your stories the way we hope others will curate our
content. Specifically, if you like a story on our site, we are pleased and
gratified.
Please feel free to excerpt it as
generously as you wish. In return please just give us clear credit, links back
to the article, and some encouragement for interested readers to visit the original
article. Take as much of our content as you think will inform and entertain
your readers. Just link, credit, and encourage the reader to visit the original
site. That is what we do. That is what built the internet. That is what social
sharing is about.
Everyone benefits when sharing is
done respectfully and honestly.
Here is what we will never do:
- We never take your entire article.
- We never re-publish without full credit, links and sending you readers.
- We never republish an RSS feed verbatim.
- We never excerpt without the intention of sending you more traffic.
We always change the headline, and
add context, meaning, and analysis to your articles.
Our general guidelines for excerpts
published on this site are:
● never more than about 30 - 40% of
any article
● never more than one article from
any site in any one day
● never more than what is needed to
communicate the essence of the article
Most importantly:
Sharing,
curation and excerpting standards are still evolving online. Our standards of
delight may very well differ from yours. If you want us to be even more
generous with links and credit let us know. If you feel your story has had too
much excerpted, let us know. We will fix it to your standards instantly.
Pat Campo
patcampo@yahoo.com
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