I really don't even want to talk about it, but you can see the remnants all over my website. Had some heated debate about intellectual property and specifically how it relates to RSS/Atom newsfeeds. Seems a large number of people think that it's really bad to show a newsfeed to a third party (goes by the term 'republish') - although I fail to see where one could possibly draw a line. A feed is a feed. So for the present time until I can figure out how to make everybody happy, I've disallowed the viewing of news items by non-members; and culled from the ranks of our esteemed collection of eclectic news sources any information provider with less than 1000 viewers/day.

This means to see news articles which didn't originate on this site you will have to login. It also means you can't share these news articles with non-members. And it also means you won't be seeing Junk Drawer, Frog and Goat, Fragments from Floyd, or any of your other favorite small blogs here anymore, unless you import them yourself for your own personal viewing. Please contact me if you have any troubles working out the feed settings. If I import them and allow you to read them it is considered republishing, and that's really bad.

I'm keeping the larger newsfeeds at the present time because these are primarily professionals who have no issue publishing or re-publishing their content assuming full attribution is provided.

The place to apply controls is in the feed itself and anybody who's been around the syndication space for a while knows that. Many novices don't understand that they control their own destiny and can include anything, everything, or nothing in their published syndication feed. If you include everything but object to how it is used by third parties, it's kinda' like taking your clothes off in the middle of the street and then complaining because somebody saw you naked.