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Aggregating. All the cool kids are doing it.

2007-10-30

It's like "Copyright Infrigment Lite"

Look at you, you're a mess. You're bland, and pale and white, and completely boring....

....you scrape, you steal, you 'borrow' other peoples intellectual copyright, you engage in trackback spamming, you manipulate technorati and the SERPs......

...Hell, I bet you'd step over your own mother for a backlink......

...I mean, look at you! Just look at yourself; living on the edge of the internet; you're a scofflaw! A hooligan of the interweb! A digital ner'do'well!

How do you sleep at night?!?!

Oh, what am I saying...I know you sleep well, because you're an aggregator.

You sleep SOUNDLY, because what you do isn't wrong. In fact, what you do is encouraged in ~~web 2.0~~ web-two-point-oh.

You're a purveyor of content, a go-between for readers and publishers! You're the grease in the cogs of the blogosphere! Huzzah!

Oh, ectio.us, I don't care if you slam adsense ads into every one of your 172,000 pages in Googles index, I love you anyways.

--Rob

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Comments:

Name: osmolar
Website: http://www.osmolar.com
Comment: Where's the content?

Name: Rob
Comment:

That's the beauty of it. He's monetizing links. It kinda make's you go, 'huh?!?'

It's that good.

Name: tinkertim
Website: http://echoreply.us
Comment:

Ectio is one of the few sites that actually respects our copyright. They aggregate titles, nothing more. They don't steal excerpts from our feeds, they don't butcher said excerpts, they don't spam us with bogus pings.

Oh, ectio, I love thee too. Other "Blogregators" might learn a lesson from them :)

Name: Rob
Comment:

Yeah, I can't (and won't) disagree with you on those points.

I take it ectio.us is one of your babies? Its hosted by the same company as your echoreply.us website, and its on the same CBlock.....so I'm forced to assume.

Great work man. Well done!

Name: tinkertim
Website: http://echoreply.us
Comment:

Ectio and I are neighbors, the site is actually run by someone named Paul. I found ectio in my never ending search to try to find something good to read. I don't own it, I just host it :) Ectio out grew standard hosting platforms, I made some room for it on a Xen farm.

host3270 is simply a generic domain that I (and most clients) use for dns. Millenium Generations is the name of the company that I frequently work for.