Beantown Bloggery discusses a new blog that is reprinting Boston-area blog posts without so much as a link back to the originating site - unless the site happens to be run by a news organization with lawyers and stuff.
The site is registered to some writer down in Jupiter, Fla. Somehow, it's not surprising that bloggers aren't the only people pissed at him.
Dude has comments enabled on his site; would be interesting to flood him with questions about why he's reposting other people's stuff (well, beyond the obvious: That he's hoping to make a few bucks off Google ads). I left my question on this post, which Bostonist readers might find somewhat familiar (and don't worry: I slapped a "nofollow" tag on that link so he doesn't get any Googlejuice).
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I just did a quick glance
By alyssa
Thu, 12/06/2007 - 10:11am
And it looks like the guy is scraping Hub Politics - which is also featured on the front page of Boston.com. He's also scraping content from the Boston Globe's Red Sox blog with no links for either.
I only read a few entries, 'cause I'm not Columbo or anything. But honestly.
www.thebigredblog.com
Adam's Comment Removed
By SwirlyGrrl Not ...
Thu, 12/06/2007 - 10:24am
Seems loser boy doesn't want his dirty secret exposed, eh?
There is a link to the google ads complaint form on the beantownbloggery post, where you can slam him for stealing content. GoogleAds will cut him off if they get the message.
GoogleAds complaint form
By SwirlyGrrl Not ...
Thu, 12/06/2007 - 10:49am
Complain Here about this guy stealing content - there is a check box for "this site is using content from other sites, possibly without permission".
Anyone want to compile a
By WhatATOOL
Thu, 12/06/2007 - 10:58am
Anyone want to compile a list of said plagarisms and the sites they belong to?
has someone told Bostonist yet?
By Ron Newman
Thu, 12/06/2007 - 11:00am
Lots and lots of their posts were copied there.
Jon sent the dude a C&D
By Caroline
Thu, 12/06/2007 - 12:35pm
He told the guy to stop, and the guy cut the RSS feed, so Bostonist isn't showing up anymore (at least not what I see on the home page).
The site is still coming up for me. Sigh.
Comments are being moderated
By Ron Newman
Thu, 12/06/2007 - 10:56am
I left one that just said "Who really wrote this item?". I don't think any comments are actually being put up and then deleted (not yet, anyway)
Yikes!!!!
By independentminded
Thu, 12/06/2007 - 11:34am
Sure hope he's not scraping this blog!!
Man down
By Anonymous
Thu, 12/06/2007 - 11:35am
Site is currently killed for me.
Still coming up for me
By adamg
Thu, 12/06/2007 - 11:44am
Darn, you had me all excited there!
Not Coming Up For Me, Either
By Suldog
Thu, 12/06/2007 - 11:47am
When I click the link, I get a "Firefox is having problems locating this site" message.
Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com
I still see it
By Ron Newman
Thu, 12/06/2007 - 12:22pm
and I'm also using Firefox. What kind of a placeblog doesn't have an "About this blog" page?
Looks like he's removed blog posts
By adamg
Thu, 12/06/2007 - 4:33pm
But is still "borrowing" Globe reports.
He also might be blocking specific IP addresses, because some folks can't get through to the site, while I can, which is how I know the above and where I saw this:
Not a native English-speaker
By Ron Newman
Thu, 12/06/2007 - 4:38pm
based on the grammar and spelling in that paragraph.
Meanwhile, what's with the totally whimsical tagging? The "apologize" post has these tags: Massachusetts, boston college, New England, Chelmsford, Sherborn, Hyannis, Medway, fenway park, Paul Pierce, Hanson, Southborough, Lincoln, Natick, Wayland, Boston
Not a native English-speaker
By Robert
Thu, 12/06/2007 - 6:36pm
Just because you can't spell, that makes you a not a native? Hmmmm...nobody here has ever misspelled anything? Seems to me , he's trying to do the right thing.
"The right thing"
By Ron Newman
Thu, 12/06/2007 - 7:27pm
would be for him to apologize for ever creating his pseudo-blog in the first place, and then to remove it.
Noticed that too, that whole
By TheClause
Fri, 12/07/2007 - 12:35am
Noticed that too, that whole blog is just phishing for add revenue.
You can deduct that from the tags and the stories, my guess is they're all stolen, we just don;t know from where yet. Admin is "admin" too, no name, and no way to comment...
Get google on this guy, the site is of no service, it's just plagiarizing to benefit.
Tags
By Michael
Thu, 12/06/2007 - 4:43pm
Tags for his "Apology" post: Massachusetts, boston college, New England, Chelmsford, Sherborn, Hyannis, Medway, fenway park, Paul Pierce, Hanson, Southborough, Lincoln, Natick, Wayland, Boston.
OK.....
(Of course, Ron mentioned it before I did)