A couple days ago I discovered these wordpress plugins which are meant to grab any syndicated content published through  RSS (either using ATOM or other means) in Blogs and after grabbing the content, the plugins republish it in your own blog.

The first tool is called feedwordpress and can be found here:

http://projects.radgeek.com/feedwordpress/

There’s a whole discussion on how this is actually stealing content - given the increase in the amount of websites on the Internet these days, the only way of telling crappy from non-crappy sites is through actual “content”, which makes “borrowing” content a critical crime

Well there’s a whole purpose behind using these tools for “good” - I know they are very common in the porn industry where simple blogs created to do nothing but earn money need daily content and through these tools they can use the RSS feeds provided by the “affiliate companies” (the ones who pay the webmasters money per sale, recursive sale, whatever) to host new content every day.

Another tool that can be used for hosting remote content is also WP-o-matic:

http://devthought.com/wp-o-matic-the-wordpress-rss-agreggator/ 

I haven’t tried that one, the site looks nice tho’

So where was I going.. oh, yeah - well there are plenty of blogs created by information security experts out there, plenty, and having a unique space where their content meets would be nice - not relying on stand alone RSS feed readers. But then again, I thought about it twice and decided to create my own posts referencing their content. That way I get to force myself into reading every single blog and getting the sweetest posts here.

Hope that makes sense.