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waaaaaaaaaaa.. he stole the revenue !! alec wraps his head around feedpass and feedburner.... MIKE BUGU and take it :)-
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| By Alec on Tech & Business It’s a holiday weekend here in Canada. While the coffee was making I started thinking about the whole FeedPass abuse theme I wondered about yesterday. And then it clicked how easy it would be to cut the author of a blog out of the revenue stream on FeedPass. Here’s what I did: - I used my Feedburner account to create a new feed for TechCrunch. Here’s the chicklet:
 - I used Feedpass to wrap that feed in advertising. You can see it here:
 - Then, I used FeedBurner’s Title/Description Burner feature to insert the FeedPass claim code. FeedPass accepted the modified header as real, and allowed me to claim TechCrunch.
By doing this, I get the 1/3 of Google revenues that FeedPass reserves for the creator of the feed, PLUS the 1/3 that FeedPass reserves for the owner of the feed. Sorry Mike. I guess I cut you out of the loop… Having had the time to think through this issue over night, I’ve come to the conclusion that there really isn’t a legitimate reason for FeedPass to offer this feature. Syndication of blog content should be done with the author’s consent, which I don’t believe would be unreasonably withheld in most cases. Certainly, I’ve allowed my content to be commercially syndicated by a variety of different groups. But commercial syndication of all my content (even just excerpts) without my consent crosses a line, in my mind. Randy asked yesterday how this was different from Google, which of course, does exactly that — it commercially syndicates all of my content. It does so, however, with my consent. I could add a robots file, and they would honour that. Opting out of FeedPass requires me to send email to Jim Woolley. If FeedPass can automate claiming a blog, then they ought to also automate an opt-out. Moreover, they ought to do a better job of ensuring that only the owner of a blog can claim the feed. And in the meantime, sorry Mike… I am keeping all of the click revenue from your excellent work for myself!!!  | | | | |
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