Not Larry Sabato vs. BlogNetNews
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This is interesting (to me, at least): I see that Not Larry Sabato turned off his RSS feed to keep BlogNetNews, an aggregator, from syndicating his content. NLS, ever the self-promotional salesman, has been a long-time critic of BNN’s new “influence” ranking, undoubtedly because it does not always rank him #1. Apparently NLS tried to remove his feed from BNN’s aggregator, but BNN refused to remove him, and that led to the drastic step of turning off the feed.
While I’m not a huge fan of Not Larry Sabato’s caps-and-exclamation-point-riddled, shoot-first-and-ask-questions-later style of tabloid blogging, I am a big fan of RSS feeds and protecting intellectual property, so I’m saddened by the loss of Not Larry Sabato from my reader. Let’s hope BlogNetNews sees the error of their way and learns to respect the right of content owners to participate or not participate.
The funniest comment on this topic, by the way, came from (who else?) John Maxfield: “We [CASTLE blogs] are the ones they are reading I guess, otherwise—why would we be at the top of the rankings?” (Explanation of why this is funny for the non-technically-savvy: It’s trivially simple for diligent or nefarious people to game the system to improve their ranking.)
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