Stop Bitacle: Sticky Post

Please look carefully at the web address in the URL field of your browser. It should read http://www.alithinks.typepad.com/.

In case you see a web address containing the word ‘bitacle’ or ‘bitacle.org’, you’re not looking at the original page on which this text was posted. If this is the case, the text you are reading right now might be incorrect or out of date [and stolen, -ed.]. After I place a post on my weblog, I always try to keep published information up to date, or incorporate additional information, which I receive from readers.

You will never find this information on bitacle.org. Bitacle.org copies the content of weblogs without permission of the author, the holder of copyrights or the licensee. By visiting bitacle.org, you create income for the people who run bitacle.org, at the expense of me and other owners of a weblog, without permission and often without respecting copyrights and/or terms of use as in a license.

So please, next time you want to view my posts, do so by using the web address of my weblog, which is http://www.alithinks.typepad.com/.

Please make a bookmark of my weblog’s address, if you would like to visit it again. [Or subscribe to my RSS feed, -ed.] Thank you!

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This post was suggested by the folks at Stop Bitacle.org. Since everything I publish ends up at Bitacle, this is a way to generate negative press for them. I'll leave this post on top for a few days. Actually, I don't know when I'll be blogging again, so it'll probably stay at the top of the page anyway.

Comments

[Neil]

Scary! And I'm sure Bitacle is not the only one doing this.

[owld_skipper]

Can we flame the bastids? Huh? Can we?

[Susan]

Don't you feel violated? I am curious to look at their site, but that would only lead them to me.

I imagine they go after popular blogs, so I guess in some weird way you could feel complimented, but I imagine you feel violated, which you damn well should!

In the meantime, you can blog elsewhere for free, so that your faithful readers don't have to go off the wagon and suffer painful withdrawal symptoms!

[cmhl]

wow, that sounds illegal, but I'm sure they have found some sort of loophole.

[The CEO]

You can always publish on my site Ali, it's not like a ton of people breathlessly awaits my next word. My blog isn't anywhere as nice as this. But they don't know I'm alive either.

[Elisabeth]

I don't quite understand the whole concept behind Bitacle. On the other hand, did I get this right - you're giving up blogging?

[Alison]

I'm not giving up blogging, but right now I don't much feel like posting anything.

[rel]

Ali,
I hope you'll reconsider,
you are a pleasure to read
think Desiderada:
"
Exercise caution in your business affairs,

for the world is full of trickery.

But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;

Many persons strive for high ideals,

and everywhere life is full of heroism."
rel

[misschrisc]

I don't know how they can get away with this crap. Hey don't stay away too long, okay. I need my Alison fix nearly daily you know.

[meredith]

Man, I had no idea that problems like that exist.
Cheers Alison :)

[lily/rebecca]

i hate that this happened. i love your blog and don't want to be deprived!!! grrr!!

fargin bastidge iceholes!

[lily/rebecca]

i don't think this is happening to me, i'm new to blogging, don't use typepad (though i think i may move to it soon) don't really blog much of interest, and don't blog all that frequently...but with your permission, i'd like to put this problem up in my blog, quoting a lot of what you've said here. if that's cool with you. (if not, no big deal.) i think everyone should be aware that this is happening. it's not right.

p.s. LOOK ALI - i used "it's" and not "its" correctly this time! :)

[LittleMike]

Has anyone tried to sue them?

[Anne]

Thanks for the heads up Ali - you're a peach!