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Another day, another person stealing our content (or "the Eliot Ness solution")

6/2/2005

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untouchablesOne interesting effect of turning on trackbacks the other day is that we noticed a couple of folks republishing our entire RSS feeds. Now, we’re fine with folks republishing our headlines and the first couple of words but taking the whole feed and putting three Google Adsense ads around it?
To boot this person at http://www.computeralchemy.com is lifting other blogs including Gizmodo.

It turns out there are folks marketing services encouraging folks to do this! Rok Hrastnik at MarketingStudies.net has an article about it. One system is called SuperFeedSystem which says:

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Hello, my name is Jason. Welcome to my blog on the interwebs. You can reach me on twitter @jason and by email at jason@calacanis.com. My Skype is jasoncalacanis, and my mobile phone is 310-456-4900.

I only pick up numbers I recognize, and in terms of emailing me, the best strategy is to write short, blunt and to the point requests. I can quickly respond to short messages, and many times I simply don't have the time to read five page pitches. In terms of taking meetings, I only do that after reviewing an actual product (not a business plan). So, the best time to ping me is when you have mockups or an alpha site. I don't read business plans, and I've never written one.

Other twitter accounts you can follow: Video Games, Open Angel Forum, and LAUNCH Conference & Newsletter

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