There’s no such thing as bad publicity. Scoble screwed you for a day, but now you are a top google result for “scoble that idiot.” That’s how I found you. I’m *sure* this has been economically net positive for you. Profit from the scoble wave!

Lots of links: Looking for weekend reading material? Here’s some interesting stuff I’ve kept open in my browser since end of August, with a sentence or two of description for each……….

When the software first came out I said that A) It does have the potential for abuse and B) That only an idiot would use it with so many better targeted splogging applications out there.

It appears I was right on both accounts.

I’m not surprised that it was abused, it was only a matter of time, I’m not surprised that he got caught or that things blew up like this. I am surprised that Scoble misdirected his fire, but the rest should have been a foreseeable consequence.

While I think the idea of a key in an RSS to permit scraping is a good idea, it’s also moot. The cat, as they say, is out of the bag, and anyone who wanted to scrape at will could just use an old version. Even if they did upgrade, removing such a feature out of the plugin would be trivial.

Personally, I think most sploggers will stick to the higher-end apps that let them produce hug libraries of content at the push of a button. WP-Autoblog isn’t that.

Still, doesn’t mean more idiots won’t give it a try.