[2011 Summer of deletion/reposting note: It seems now that I looked again for the URL to hyperlink below, that bitacle is no longer an active site on the internet (holla!). Yet to be historically accurate, I kept all the original stuff I said]
splog (spam blog): a fake blog created solely to promote affiliated Web sites, with the intent of skewing search results and artificially boosting traffic. Some have no original content, featuring content stolen from authentic Web sites. Splogs include huge numbers of links to the Web sites in question to fool Web crawlers (programs that search the Web for sites to index.
Holy crap, ya'll. I have become a big fan of one of my early readers/commenters, Eva Las Vegas, and was just over there reading about the internet nastiness that is bitacle.org. So I go over there to find out what it is, and -damn!- even little old me, a relative nobody in the blogosphere, has been stolen for profit! About one-third to a half of my Stepford posts are over there. I am sickened.
The people behind bitacle.org steal content, such as text and images, from other's weblogs and place it on their own website. Their practices are criminal and/or abusive, because these people violate the copyrights on the original content, of their holders. Not only copyrights are violated, licenses such as those of the Creative Commons are not respected as well.
The stolen content from weblogs is placed on the demon's website, between commercial messages for which the people behind it are being paid for by advertisers.
Sh!t. Still haven't figured out what we're all to do. Still searching the internet about it. Just wanted to make you AWARE of TWO THINGS:
1) if you have a blog, go to this this page and use the search box at the top of the page. Use the name or most popular keywords used on your blog to see if your blog is listed.
2) please make sure you are reading this content from the original source: me. The URL of this blog is http://instepford.blogspot.com (In case you see a web address containing the word 'bitacle' or 'bitacle.org', you're not looking at the original page), so please make sure you have the correct address bookmarked to visit so you are not unwittingly lining the pockets of the devil's spawn.
