Fear, Loathing, & Publishing

Hate you, sign!

And for once it's not by virtue of letting those signs at the edge of the park across from the house get the better of me. Actually, both my eyes feel like they have blisters on them or at the very least heavy duty scraping from old, evil sandpaper. I've spent most of the last 24 hours working on registering the RSS feeds for this blog and the official publishing blog with every RSS directory I can find. Basically, people subscribe to RSS feeds to have specific content sent to their computer or to a news aggregator where they will read all the feeds they subscribe. For example, right now I have like 10 or so blogs I read on a moderately frequent basis depending on how much freet time I have. If I subscribed to all the RSS feeds for them--and that's if (usually) their writing had submitted them to RSS directories--I could have one Web page where the newest entries of all of them would show up. Crazy. I've been seeing stuff about this for a while but it wasn't until yesterday that the lightbulb went off in my head about how helpful this could be to drive traffic to both the blogs. That is, who want to read through a million blog directories to bookmark blogs? But, on the other hand, people cruise news aggregators to find feeds very specific to their interests/needs. So, we'll see how it all works out.

Heard from one of the guys--the professor in Canada--who had poached the PDF of one of our technology forecasts and posted it online. Basically, he took it all down right away but said he didn't care much for the tone of my email . . . that it was "heavy handed" and "offensive." Alright, he got the message! 

No means no, fucker!

So as a publishing dude I publish these technology forecasts; these dudes are big ticket items; the most recent one we did retails for $150; we also sell PDF e-book downloads of these books; there's this one dude at the school; he runs the department that contracts to to have these done; we publish them; (I think I covered that part already); so this dude emails me today; he sends me links where these other dudes at their own sites have uploaded his/our technology forecasts PDFs to where any other dude can download them; and like, dude, that is so NOT COOL; so I got my copyright reference book out so see what I should do; that book told me exactly what to do; so I sent those dudes/fuckers cease & desist emails; one site got their PDFs of our shit offline in like 45 minutes; the other dude is some fucker in Canada; I knew those mealy-mouthed motherfuckers/dudes were up to no good; oh and he'll be getting them offline; and then those dudes shall know who really is the king of fuck mountain.