Sidecut Reports

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.

Editor’s Note: The following post is an excerpt from our new report, Goin’ Mobile: How WiMax Could Change the Consumer Broadband Experience. In this excerpt we talk about how flexible, innovative pricing schemes from main provider Clearwire may help drive the adoption of WiMax services by consumers. The report, which updates our previous consumer guide with the latest in market launch information from Clearwire’s Atlanta, Las Vegas and Portland markets, is available for purchase from our website for $4.95.

WIMAX PRICING, MARKETS AND ROAMING

If there is any other hallmark that differentiates WiMax pricing, it is Clearwire’s long list of flexible options, which include choices of different levels of service speed as well as “bundling” options that offer lower prices when consumers combine two services, such as a home service and a mobile service.

While writing about Clearwire service pricing is an inexact science (since the company has rapidly repriced and reduced prices on options in the first six months of 2009 alone) its entry-level price for basic home WiMax service has remained steady at $20 a month. Its fastest home-service option, which offers 6 Mbps download speeds, was priced at $40 per month as of the writing of this report. An unlimited-usage mobile service option was priced at $50 per month, with promised download speeds of 4 Mbps. And a combination of unlimited home and mobile services — say a home modem and a USB card tied to the same bill — was priced at $65 per month.

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We are happy to make our latest report, the $4.95 Clearwire NTK report, available on Scribd! Follow the links below to purchase from Scribd if that is your preferred data-downloading arena.

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