Warning: Tool Ahead.
As seen on seanbonner’s site: Why I asked bloglines to remove my site from it’s service.
Yeah! I asked bloglines to do the same. Then I asked every online user in the whole world to never share a file again. I also called each “ed” in the phone book and let them know that I have fist dibbs on our name. I still thought I had a little pretentious bastard left in me so I went ahead and sued an orphan who used one of the jokes I casually told in public without referencing me.
If I am not mistaken, isn’t it your RSS FEED that bloglines is showing people?
AND IF I MAY GO FURTHER WITH MY CONJECTURE, DIDN’T YOU PUT IT THERE FOR FEEDREADERS TO AGGREGATE IT, YOU RIDICULOUS GREEDY TOOL?
Ugh. People are so funny. And here we all thought that only organizations like the RIAA were myopic and self-serving enough to limit the use of their content.
Obviously he thinks he’s losing ad revenue and possibly risking having his content dangerously close to ads from another competitor. Um, ok. He tosses people a bone with the following:
For the 190 of you who subscribe to this site through Bloglines, I apologize for any inconvenience, but I think that you will still find my site easily accessible, here.
Screw that- I would like to extend a warm invitation to all 190 of his previous subscribers: YOU CAN SUBSCRIBE TO ME INSTEAD. You’ll laugh a hell of a lot more and be able to use bloglines until you puke. Bloglines kicks much ass. I’m not afraid to let them MAKE ME ACCESSIBLE TO HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE- AT THEIR CONVIENIENCE. So subscribe away. There’s a link on the right- click it into submission.
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COMMENTS / 3 COMMENTS
Mango added these pithy words on Jan 16 05 at 7:22 pmI completely agree with you on this one Ed.
If he doesn’t want people to read his site through Bloglines, he should take down his RSS feed. It’s just that simple.
I love bloglines. It’s great. I wish I had found it sooner.
Next I’m guessing he’ll ask Firefox to remove their sage reader?
I guess some people get upset that their stat counters don’t register when you read something over an RSS feed instead. Some people need validation through statistics… a need to be loved, I guess?
I write for myself. Not anyone else.
Besides, he should be happy he has 190 subscribers, it’s 190 people he can count on that are interested in what he is doing.
Becky added these pithy words on Jan 16 05 at 10:38 pmI’m so out of it… I don’t even know what Bloglines is. But, what from what I gathered, it sounds like the guy’s complaining about something he set up in the first place. Dumb.
Michael added these pithy words on Jan 16 05 at 10:56 pmI totally agree with you Ed. It seems to me that all Martin had to do was change his feed to provide only excerpts. For him to single out BlogLines is just ridiculous. My Yahoo! does RSS aggregation and is ALREADY showing ads, and I’m sure some client side newsreaders show ads too.
