Did You Rob Bill Gates Blog is a Thief!

For the past couple of weeks, “Did You Rob Bill Gates?” has been scraping my RSS feed, including the copyright on the bottom.

I have left comments asking them to cease on MY posts on their blog. There is NO contact information, no about page, nothing. Apparently, there is not even an author, since the one post I did find was signed “Contributing Writer” (unless that was stolen too!)

Since they are a Splog and Google AdSense is plastered all over the place, I contacted AdSense to inform them that they are Infringing on my Copyrighted Content as well as other Bloggers I know. I did get an e-mail response from Google, and they want me to jump through too many hoops like sending my complaint by snail-mail or fax in order for them to even investigate.

Ain’t gonna happen. If Google wants to pay them and be labled an enabler of SPLOGS, then so be it. But I doubt it will bother big brother much since they own Blogger, the biggest splog enabler of them all.

Now, I did block their IP address on my Host, but that only keeps them off the site directly, it can’t block them from RSS. I looked round and round on FeedBurner (also owned by Google) for a way to block them from my Feed. NOT! Even the Forum on FB has multiple complaints of similar instances, but they just say they’re sorry, nothing they can do. But, I DID add a little note in the footer of the Feed, just for DYRBG.

Here is a list of TODAY’s front page of STOLEN CONTENT:

Genius Level Toilet Seat Innovation

25. July 2008 Dan Gould

Event: Ignite NYC on July 29

25. July 2008 Christine Huang

PSFK Conference SF Liveblog Recap: New Art

25. July 2008 Lauren Isaacson

Designers Rethink Starbucks

25. July 2008 Dave Pinter

My 30 day Journey with Twitter

25. July 2008 Teresa Morrow

Working at Home Blog Carnival-Ninety-fifth Edition

25. July 2008 Joe

Confessions of a Natural Born Follower

24. July 2008 Wendy Piersall

Circos Genetic Mapping

24. July 2008 Michael Harvey

 The reason there are no links is they all lead to DYRBG, but If your name is on the list, contact me. We have to find a way to stop this.

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July 25th, 2008 at 11:22am | Posted by Joe | RSS, Rants | 1 reader remark | Print This Post

Working at Home Blog Carnival-Ninety-fifth Edition

Welcome to the July 25, 2008 edition of working at home blog carnival. This weeks Carnival has, as always, some really good articles. So, Sit Back and Enjoy.

And Here We Go…

advice

Dr. Joe Capista presents How To Effectively Use Business Mentoring posted at The Success Triangle, saying, “If you are running a small business and you get frustrated when things seem to be going wrong you’re not alone. Every successful businessperson experiences some level of frustration. The distinction between successful business owners and those that continually struggle is the way they handle their frustration. Learn how a mentor can not only help you to handle frustration, but thrive during difficult times.”

R.Pettinger presents Difficulties of Working From Home posted at Net Writing, saying, “Some of the common difficulties in working from home and how to overcome them”

Tash Hughes presents Be prepared for all contingencies | Word Constructions posted at Word Constructions.

business

Tammy Powell presents An Email Marketing System for Driving Affiliate Product Sales posted at Enlightened Wealth Institute student Tammy Powell.

Dave Hobbs presents 10 Things To Do Before You Quit Your Day Job posted at Self Employed or Bust, saying, “10 Things to Do Before You Quit Your Day Job offers real advice for those experiencing success in their online business ventures who are considering quitting their day jobs.”

Mark Russell presents Internet Sweatshops? posted at MarkDRussell.com.

Matthew Paulson presents Grow Your Business with a Virtual Assistant posted at American Entrepreneurship.

The Shark Investor presents Don’t Make Money Blogging posted at The Shark Investor, saying, “Do you use your blog with business sense?”

Robert D Flach presents IF YOU WANT TO BE A BUSINESS THEN ACT LIKE ONE! posted at THE FLACH REPORT.

Ian Cunningham presents How to choose an accountant posted at The Business Lounge, saying, “Advice for work at home businesses on how to choose an accountant.”

maria gudelis presents Making Money Online: It May Not Be That Simple posted at Majestic Tech by an Enlightened Wealth Institute student.

general

Kelly Sonora presents 50 Firefox 3 Add-ons That Will Change the Way You Surf the Web posted at Best Colleges Online.

home

GP presents Can?t Curb my Enthusiasm posted at Innstyle Montana- Come on Inn, saying, “Work and home lessons… learned from our horses yet again”

Frederic Premji presents The Advantages Of Working From Home posted at BlogMotivation.com.

tips

Christopher Johnson presents 10 Ways To Earn Money In Your Spare Time posted at CoffeeBreakEarnings.com, saying, “10 Ways To Earn Money In Your Spare Time”

Traffic2mypage presents Using OBP to increase web traffic - Part III - Youtube posted at Traffic2mypage.com, saying, “Commenting on other sites is a sure fire way to increase web traffic. But how do you find sites that has active click participation?? You use Youtube! Find blogs to comment or advertise on by using youtube statistics.. Read how”

work

Matt presents Daily Time Management with a Checklist posted at Face Your Fork, saying, “Throwing too much time into your home business can throw your life out of balance, resulting in a severe case of burnout. This unique time management method helps keep your life balance intact while letting you become amazingly productive at what you love to do.”

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of working at home blog carnival using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page. If you would like to host one of my Carnivals, just use the contact form to make arrangements.

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July 25th, 2008 at 06:17am | Posted by Joe | Carnivals, Work at Home | reader remarks | Print This Post