I took you up on your offer. I’m syndicating you now too. Proper link back and all. You can email if you want to discuss what I am trying to accomplish, you might like it.

Nice site, talk to you later.

In a way, releasing your work under a CC license is almost a weight off your shoulders because you’ve clearly stated that the content is there to build your reputation/experience/career first and monetize second. Suddenly, chasing down content “theives” isn’t in your best interests and you’d be much more productive elsewhere.

Exactly, that is one of my points. Getting so caught up in something you really don’t have that much control over in the first place, unless you remove your RSS feed or simply provide excerpts, doesn’t help you get anywhere. My time is better focused in other areas instead of having to worry if someone is taking the time to take my content and post it up on their site.

It definitely becomes an issue for me when someone takes my work and claims it as their own though.

The jist was that as your content moves up the long tail and grows in popularity, you feel more and more compelled to protect it. And that’s understandable because, hey, it’s your paycheck.

In a way, releasing your work under a CC license is almost a weight off your shoulders because you’ve clearly stated that the content is there to build your reputation/experience/career first and monetize second. Suddenly, chasing down content “theives” isn’t in your best interests and you’d be much more productive elsewhere.

I decided to save your readers from my ramblings, and instead, subject my readers to them. They’re practically immune at this point. Practically.

Like you, I tend to lean toward open syndication of my content, summarized or otherwise. The value is not in getting people to my blog; the value is in getting my content to the people. My blog just happens to be one venue for doing that.