[My other posts on Bitacle (if you don't know about the blog-thieves) are in the 'related posts' section below.]
A few days ago I changed my Feedburner RSS feed to use the ‘feed image’ feature and used this:
This includes a small image with each of your RSS postings. Typical use is to add the logo of your site for branding purposes, but this suited me better. I made the change and didn’t think about it again until this morning when I happened to see my post from yesterday on Bitacle. Click the below screenshot to enlarge and see why I think it is so damned funny.
Tee hee — turns out that bitacle puts your feed image up in their header area. Now you can click directly from my bitacle posts to the Stop Bitacle site — Ha! OK I’m easily amused, but that combined with my tip for redirecting their image requests to show the below really makes me laugh.
Yes, I’m easily amused. And yes, I still hate Bitacle, but I have to do something while waiting for them to implode.
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Excellent work! That is great!
That is pretty funny. Shows you how stupid scraping can be. I still look forward to the day in which Barnacle, I mean Bitacle, is gone for good.
In the meantime though, a little fun at their expense is certainly worthwhile…
Hi. I’ve been on the trail of Bitacle all weekend. Lo and behold, my entire litany of posts from start to finish is under their aggregates tab! Oh joy. I’m posting about this tomorrow on Mimi Writes (blogspot). May I include this post in my article? It’s funny and creative.
Thanks,
Mimi Lenox
Jessica & Jonathan: Well, it amuses me, so I guess that’s somthing!
Hey Mimi: Sure, that would be great. I look forward to the article!
Found you from Mimi’s site. Great idea. I’m going to try this. Thanks!
I had no idea this was going on! Thank you so much, and your humor is grand!
I found you from Dr. A’s site. Bitacle has stolen me too. And I don’t begin to have the level of technical knowledge you do to do something about it. How do I change my RSS feed to summary from full post?
I am both mad and bewildered by all this. Thanks for educating!
Hi TheTundraPA — I don’t have a blogger account, but this is what I found:
http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=42015&topic=8927
I believe the ‘Descriptions’ popup menu is what you’re looking for. I hope that helps!
blogmad brought me here and i’m glad it did. there are 367 feeds of mine on bitacle.
can you tell me exactly what i need to do to be like you and STOP BITACLE?
thanks.
Dr. A — let me know how it turns out.
Gina — thanks!
jen — Hmmm, I haven’t stopped Bitacle at all. The best way to stop them is to spread the word so that they might get put out of business. Their goal is to have a site that makes a ton from Google Adsense, so if their Adsense account gets terminated they might close up shop. Other than that you can check http://stopbitacleorg.wordpress.com/ for tips other than the ones I have listed. Good luck!
That screen shot is fantastic. Good for you.
Oooh I do so hatehatehate those bitchacles… You are officially my plain-Jane hero!