The scissors of attribution

My old buddy David has [a new thing called sni.ps](http://sni.ps/)  . It’s essentially a content tracking system, so that it’s easy for a content creator to see where else their content is being referenced. From the site description:

With SNI.PS, you can capture content from almost any Website on the Net and place it on your own blog. The tool tracks the attribution of any “snipped content”, so that content owners can see where and how their content is being reused elsewhere on the Web.

It’s a handy idea that can potentially be expanded into a kind of web-wide lazy CMS, as it puts a layer of management on top of content that’s generally freely shared around. Lots of interesting potential there. I’m looking forward to using it, as soon as I can figure out the WordPress plugin…