Satisfy my curiosity, what do you mean about "posts on other websites" in the Y&R FM post?

argh!

Ok, first off - I don't want people thinking I'm cranky here - cuz, really I'm not. RSS feeds have the feature of being used on other websites, that's their main idea and I'm all for it.

That out of the way there's cool ways of doing it and kind-of-odd ways of doing it. There's a few 'blogs' out there that seem to serve as scrapers only, they don't publish any of their own content, just a mash of everyone elses coupled with google-ads. You can usually spot these fairly easily they have a name about their topic of interest, a whole bunch of google-ads and nothing much else going on.

Again, it's a feature of RSS if I don't like it, I can quit publishing RSS feeds. This doesn't bother me too much as I just think it's kind of ugly and sneaky - they never last long anyway. There used to so many more of these.

But then I've recently seen personal blogs, youknow with the photograph of the author on the right and the usual "hi I'm Eduardo something something I work in advertising etc" and then each post is a post from another blog. Uh, that's just kind of odd. It is as if Eduardo presents each post as written by him (note: Eduardo is a totally made up name I'm not pointing fingers at anyone). and on some of these places the feeds will be presented as "posted by : Eduardo". This is just strange, and I ran into my own words on a blog that I was really liking at first (not knowing that each post came from another blog). It was like Adfreak and adage and Adland rolled into one and I read on thinking, wehey this is great, I must link this guy, but then I discovered that indeed, it was adfreak and adage and Adland rolled into one when I hit a post where the text sounded exactly like me.. Because it was written by me... That was just weird.

The ones doing it wrong, like really really wrong, are scrapers that don't link back, so I end up on some website that publishes a whole bunch of feeds and I read a snippet of someones article but then I have no link to continue on to the site where that article is from. Oh hells no, that's just wrong. I've found interesting posts at sites like these and had to google phrases until I found the original posts. I don't think regular Joe surfer does that (But if I am to post something here i want to link to the original post not some random adblog-scraper, obviously!). These guys are just fucks.

Anyway, so my sudden naming of myself and Adland was kind of my electronic hives to the latter.

Even I can't find it now. It was probably just his own way of keeping feeds he likes around and then he forgot that he made it public (so it blended into his blog as if it was from him).

Looks like he's subscribed to the topics he's specifically interested in, and created his own personal mix of news from a lot of sources. Maybe he doesn't realize that it's public?

What's weird is when it says, "I saw this," or, "I was having a discussion..." and it's not him actually doing it. I thought about commenting on his site, but even more weird is that he's linked the comments to the site he took the content from.

It was quite disturbing for that to happen, but at least he's not saying it is his own work and it can only boost traffic figures and SEO listings, so not a bad thing perhaps?

But weird.