I love being syndicated. It just amazes me what happens to some of my humble blog posts. Last week I was big news in the Czech Republic as I received trackbacks from several community sites there. The day Windows Media 10 was released all of Italia trekked through my blog to get the download, ringraziarla gli amici Italiani. Activehead sold for millions after reposting my stuff for months! I am regularly syndicated on wwwcoder, oreillynet.com, enderminh.com, Bloglines.com and that Scobleizer.
Martin Schwimmer has asked Bloglines to remove his feed from their service, as he believes their use of it one their site is commercial, and goes beyond what his CC license allows. His reasoning all seems reasonable in itself, but why bother having a feed in the first place?
Ok, if I were in his position and felt strongly about it I'd have been tempted to do one of two things, depending on my mood. In a good mood then I'd insert additional references back to my blog, gain a bit of commercial flow. In a bad mood I'd put something in my robots.txt along these lines:
User-agent: UltraLiberalRSSParser
Disallow: /rss.xml
(from http://scripting.com/robots.txt)
PS. Similar situation noted by Russell Beattie a while ago.
PPS. Russ picked up on the issue again (with panache!), and Scoble's collected links.
Denise Howell: is a Lawyer and a blogger, maybe we should call her!