Are You Reading This On BlogNetNews.com?

He certainly is getting ad revenue from your content being listed on his site. I don’t give a shit what somebody else does (technorati, etc), the issue is what HIS site does.

Don’t hold your breath, thinking he’ll remove your feed. Or that it will stay removed, if he does.

I’d count on his whining about ‘first amendment rights’ or some bullshit next.

All I can say is WOW.

Love the title sassy mama!

(ToThink on Twitter)

Oh, and another reason Dave Mastio can suck it? Because my own (yes, irrational and out of proportion) need to lay out his shitheadedness but good distracted me from other, more important material I’d meant to write about. Now I’ll have to catch up on sleep before that’s possible.

Grrrr.

Hey, you now have the top 2 on the “most clicked posts” in the parenting category.

Are you shocked (shocked, I say) to find that he hasn’t done diddly squat about removing it from his site? Hell no! Now you’re one of his bigger money makers.

There’s really something funky with the redirects on the links that do eventually go to the original site.

As Dana mentioned, we did a Blog Blast in St. Louis recently when BNN put up a new regional site. There were rumors Dave Mastio was planning to partner with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch to display our scraped content on the newspaper website, too, without permission, which made people even angrier, because, if the newspaper wants to “leverage” local blog content to prop up their struggling website, most local bloggers feel the newspaper ought to be dealing with bloggers directly and offering to compensate us for our work. One might argue that journalists, of all people, as writers themselves, ought to be respectful of others’ intellectual property, but obviously many in the newspaper industry seem to think the rules don’t apply when it comes to blog content.

But the local public outcry seems to have put the kibosh on those plans.

I wrote a massive four-post series on splogging v. aggregation as my contribution to the blog blast that starts here:

http://jaelithej.blogspot.com/2008/03/fine-line-between-feed-aggregation-and.html

The constant comments that have been left on other people’s sites who have cried out on this issue focus on a loose interpretation of Fair Use, and the argument really hangs by a thread. Fair Use is for academic and non-profit use only, as many bloggers point out in their responses. I have yet to see a lawyer weigh in on the conversation, but I am dying to know what someone in the intellectual property field really thinks about it.

Also of note: Mastio, a former presidential speech writer and newspaper reporter, is working with traditional media to aggregate the blogger feeds. Is this a vain attempt to scramble for the readers and ad dollars traditional media is loosing? I always have to think, who is really benefiting from this when we know it is not the blogger being syndicated. If there really was a benefit to the blogger, then BNN would be able to sell it them without such a ruckus and fight…

I’ve had a few battles with Vancouver aggregator sites that skim content, don’t link back, then pack their sites with ads so they’re making money off my content. Even after asking them to remove my posts they took an air of “why would you want to do that?” and pretty much got offended that I would ask them to remove my content… that they were stealing… without my knowledge or consent.

Hopefully you win this one and that this brings more awareness to content theft which is now running rampant around the internets.

I just LOVE his last line in his signature:

“Remember to visit our advertisers”

*Snort*

It’s the Girls Gone Wild of the blog world.

Joe Francis: ‘They were showing their boobs anyway, I just put it on video so I could sell it on late night TV for millions of dollars. Nobody’s getting hurt.’

Dave: ‘It’s on your feed anyway, nobody’s getting hurt, I’m just making some ad money off of your work.’

interested post about traffic. i think is very useful

These fuckers have gotten another blog of mine, and their site now has no contact info on it. I’ve emailed editor@blognetnews.com but I don’t have high hopes for it being acted on.

Um, just a thought but have you considered turning off your rss if you don’t want people to get your feeds? Or blocking his domain? Why have rss if you don’t want people using it? If I, a total stranger decides to use the rss to follow your posts in my browser because I find them interesting, is it so outlandishly impossible that perhaps another websites readers might also find them interesting and be curious about them when they visit their particular ‘favorite site’ (I use that term with some hesitation – it’s crap, but that’s not the point). The thing is, all it could possibly do is bring traffic to your site. What’s the problem – unless you want privacy?

My dealings with Mastio revealed that he is a fraud and his website is off the wall. We had one website in CT that had 3 comments and maybe 2 articles and was ranked highly that week. The CT editor was manipulating the rankings so that her site was ranked highly on a weekly basis. I disengaged when he started putting up ads on my site. Today out of curiosity I tried to bring up BNN and is wasn’t there .