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Hey. My name is Russell Holliman. I'm a professional project manager by day, and one of the founders of Podcast Ready by night. This is my blog about life on the web, life in general, and random things I find here and there.



Real Hijacking
Thursday, May 03, 2007

I hate it when the term is used in relation to companies using RSS feeds to bring content to users. I understand the implications to the podcasters and if its not done "right" it can cause a lot of issues. The word "hijacking" though to me implies malice, apathy, or outright theft.

A case in point: there is one site that I know of the routinly takes the feed from this blog and republishes on another with no credit to me. Today I noticed that they are now inserting ads within my posts - compare this post to this screen shot.

There is no obvious way to get in touch with this person, and there's little "oops" factor involved. (If I were to actually talk to the owner of this site there is little chance that he'd say "oops, I made a mistake.")

This person knows exactly what they are doing, and that its not right. That's hijacking.

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posted by Russell @ 4:03 PM, , links to this post




Admitting infringement ...
Friday, March 23, 2007

It seems some are not as smitten with the recent user-created political ad "Vote Different". The fact is, fixyourthinking is seems to be absolutely correct - this seems like infringement (using "seems" a lot because I'm no attorney).

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posted by Russell @ 9:21 AM, , links to this post