Most Hilarious WTF Scraper Blog Ever?
If there is one big dirty secret to blogging and the Internet, it’s the amazing number of “scraper” blogs out there which either use RSS feeds or just good old cut-and-paste to lift original content from “real” entities like this one and use the content to populate their own sites.
Since they are too numerous to chase and usually without any real contact information, real creators of original thought can only hope that the market will sort issues out, and that advertisers will see their banners on these garbage sites and fire their ad-buyers. In the meantime… thanks to Google Alerts we often stumble upon some hilarious attempts to cadge our original content, like our report excerpt that we posted Tuesday morning. Reading through something that looked like it went through several translation rinse-and-repeat cycles, you get this lead paragraph:
Editor’s note: The following is an pericope from our latest four times a year dispatch on all things Clearwire, the CLEARWIRE NTK OCTOBER 2009 (need to know) dispatch, on waiting aeons ago in a blue moon during the humble low cost of $4.95. In this pericope we talk close-knit to how Clearwire’s on-time, on-target retail launches in Atlanta and Las Vegas, as proficiently as a host of smaller cities, be experiencing kept the companionship on butt with its overambitious 2009 rollout plans.
I’d provide the link to the site, but as they say… that would only encourage them. And this is what they say:
According to Clearwire, it require cache up marvellous subscriptions in Silicon Valley during deliver, while allowing any other developers in the acreage to dispose of up away joining the company’s developer program, and then purchasing approved character accouterments during $50.
If you’ll excuse me, I’m off to purchasing some approved character accouterments. And then I will keep my companionship on butt.
Any lame jokes about how this stuff is better than the original… companionship them on in the comments.
