Will BlogNetNews Crumble Before A-Listers?

I'm just a little blogger. This blog is a past-time for me because I started blogging in politics, and enjoyed the airing of my opinions on the matters of the day.

But some blogs, the A-Listers, have taken their blogs and created actual publishing empires. They derive a not insignificant amount of revenue from traffic and advertisements.  We're talking about people like Instapundit, Little Green Footballs, IMAO, Michelle Malkin, Classical Values, and other like Balloon Juice, EdDriscoll, and Dean's World.

These are big names in the blogosphere.  They have names and trademarks and revenue and clout, and they have one more thing in common.  They are banded together over at PajamasMedia. 

I wonder how Glen and Frank and Dean and John and Michelle and Charles and all the others will feel about BlogNetNews diverting traffic and advertising revenue from their RSS feeds to the BlogNetNews channel called Pajama?

This is no simple question. Dave Mastio has made it clear that he believes he has the right to take our content and force us to opt-in to his website.  Most of us don't have the time, the inclination, the money, or or the GoogleJuice to fight him.

But if he starts pulling the feeds for the bloggers over at Pajamas Media down, he won't have any standing left to claim to the rest of us small fish that he is in the right.  He will be exposed as someone trying to make money off bloggers who are too small to sue him for taking our content without our permission.

So what say you, A-list bloggers?  How do you feel about someone who scrapes your content, and provides no SEO link back to your site, but instead traps that traffic on his site with misleading design and a redirect?  How will you respond to this blatant theft of content lacking in blogospheric good will?  We've done what we can.  For all of us, will you speak up?

Comments

[Dean Esmay]

We don't generate that much revenue. But, I have no problem at all with others finding a way to generate revenue from blogging. I wish them all the best.

(PS: It's "pass-time" not past time. ;-)