In a recent post I discussed breaking the blogging ceiling. One of the techniques I considered was the use of software to automate the blogging process.
The logic is pretty simple. On day one you build a blog, automate it and sit back and watch the traffic roll in. On day two you build another blog and automate it in the same way. Day three, another blog. Rinse and repeat.
In one month you would have 30 blogs all automatically updating themselves. If each blog got 30 unique visitors a day you would have a total unique visitor count of 900 users per day across your blog network.
And believe me, if you have 900 unique visitors a day, every day, you have more than enough to generate an income if you monetize your blogs wisely.
Consider that in another month you would have 1800 unique visitors a day. In 6 months, 5400 unique visitors a day.
It’s even more eyebrow raising when you consider that these calculations are based on just 30 unique visitors per day. A very conservative estimate if all of your blogs were updating daily with reasonable content. And there is nothing to stop you building more than one blog per day. The potential is huge.
The ethical fly in the ointment is that the content you would be posting would have to come from somewhere. And if it isn’t your content then that means it belongs to someone else. And that’s stealing.
That is where the current crop of automatic blogging tools fail. They scrape content from other peoples RSS feeds. Theft. Plain and simple. If you use one of the many tools currently available then you can guarantee that someone will spot their content being stolen and inform your host. Bang bang. You’re gone.
But what if the use of the content that was automatically generated was legitimate? What if software was able to create content based on a set of user defined parameters? I’ve experienced interactive fiction that can create descriptive text environments in reaction to the players inputs and responses. The same technology could be used to generate content.
With the ethical fly taken out of the ointment, automatic blogging software could create legitimate streams of passive income and potentially change the face of blogging forever.
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That is very interesting. To me though it takes the personalization out of it.
Whatever happened to blogging just
for the joy of blogging?
isn’t the act of re-purposing, re-contextualizing information/content is a form of authorship ?
It’s perfectly OK to do this if your name is Google. It isn’t against any copyright laws if you republish an excerpted RSS feed and put your ads on it. However, if you’re Joe Schmuckatelly from Chicago and you do the same thing, well, you’re violating copyrights!!!!
There are blog generators out there of varying quality being used in the blackhat community. Some scrap, others Markov, others madlib and a few are starting to use more complex AI algorithms. Just Google around on some high paying Adsense keywords and you’ll find examples of all of these.
This is what happens when there are more people talking than there are things to say.