Comments on: Go To Hell, Josh Stomel

By: Jared

Jared — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 07:19:50 +0000

Josh Stomel is the biggest scam artist on the tech planet. No one should ever work with him. He runs a fake recruiting company called NeoHire that spams people on LinkedIn and calls itself a company. Doesn’t surprise me he stole content. He also has some resume site that is a joke.

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The WebLoggers WebLogging Blog! » Blog Archive » Blogiarism Defined — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:48:32 +0000

[...] and more a-list bloggers are finding their writing blogiarized. That is, blogger’s are cut and pasting other bloggers content and claiming it as their own. [...]

By: Liar Liar ... Blog on Fire | 1040 Tax Blogs

Liar Liar ... Blog on Fire | 1040 Tax Blogs — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:59:13 +0000

[...] ran across a “Hatfield ‘n McCoy” posting blitz where the underlying beef is plagiarism, resulting in an apology from the perpetrator. The thing that struck me though was a [...]

By: Lorelle on WordPress » Content Theft from Feeds - It’s Time To Take Action

Fri, 21 Apr 2006 05:12:56 +0000

[...] Think he and I are single voices in the wilderness complaining about this? Blogging Herald, Jason Calacanis, Micro Persuasion, CT Biz Blogs, Alex Barnett, GigaOM, Crunch Notes, VoIP & Gadgets Blog, and many others have been the victims of content feed thefts. We are not alone. Our voices are loud. When we all work together, the world changes. [...]

By: Fake Tamiflu » Fake “Tamiflu”- Jan 06 MASTA Travel - Information, Immunisations

Mon, 27 Feb 2006 15:10:34 +0000

[...] CrunchNotes Go To Hell, Josh StomelBigger picture: this is small fries compare to what is really going on out there. Asia is making more than fake handbags and fake tamiflu – they are making fake copycats of popular web sites [...]

By: Monique

Monique — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 02:25:30 +0000

Figures…look who he is working for… a wannabe google.

By: John DeMayo

John DeMayo — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 10:45:43 +0000

I am a recent victim of this blatant plagiarism as well, and am spending some cash on advertising making sure others in the industry know of the shady ways of this individual.

By: Mashable* - Pete Cashmore on Web2.0 » Why Online Media Should be Free (And Why We Should Embrace the Splogophere)

Sat, 31 Dec 2005 17:58:28 +0000

[...] Forget music for a second. I’ve always thought that all online media should be free and ad-supported. There’s also the option to sell physical copies, merchandise (thanks, Cafepress) and services alongside the product. This is a pretty extreme view, I know, but it seems to me that whenever you lock content away behind a pay barrier (or even just a free signup form) you simply encourage people to go elsewhere. Why have a book printed with the opportunity to sell a few thousand copies when you could put it online and potentially reach millions of readers? Once the content is free, you can opt for an ad-supported model and sell print-on-demand copies through sites like Lulu. And once it’s freely available, your content becomes an ad for you and your services, justifying your ludicrously expensive consulting fees. Media is not scarce any more – attention is the scarce resource. The danger is not that people will “steal” your content, it’s that they’ll never be exposed to it at all. [start rant] And on a side note: Mike Arrington, Om Malik, and Steve Rubel are complaining about sploggers stealing their content. Fair enough – taking content wholesale without attribution is stealing. But the fact is that for every splogger you catch, there will be many, many more who get away with it. Here’s a crazy thought: you can’t completely stop your content from being republished on the web, so how about finding ways to turn that to your advantage? Let’s take another look at Fred Wilson’s rules for the future of media: 1 – Microchunk it – Reduce the content to its simplest form. Thanks Umair. 2 – Free it – Put it out there without walls around it or strings on it. Thanks Stewart. 3 – Syndicate it – Let anyone take it and run with it. Thanks Dave. 4 – Monetize it – Put the monetization and tracking systems into the microchunk. Thanks Feedburner. [...]

By: mathewingram.com/work » Blog Archive » Blog plagiarism — Steal this blog!

Wed, 28 Dec 2005 20:02:56 +0000

[...] As usual, Mike over at TechDirt has what I think is a nice take on the blog plagiarism (or ’splog’) problem that has afflicted some top bloggers, including Om Malik and TechCrunch. Mike’s response boils down to this: Ignore it (and it’s worth reading his reply to some of the comments his post got too). [...]

By: Bob Aman

Bob Aman — Tue, 27 Dec 2005 15:57:27 +0000

I bought a domain name from someone who worked at oversee.net. I definately got the impression, while I was talking with the previous owner, that that was a somewhat spammy operation. I know they’ve been intentionally hiring search engine employees from Yahoo and Google, and I can only assume it’s because of their knowledge of the internal workings of the respective search engines and/or ad systems. Actually, IIRC, he said that the guys they picked up from Google were still employed by Google, and were working at oversee.net part-time. I got the impression that they weren’t disclosing the employment to Google.

Actually, amusingly enough, he offered to fly me out to Los Angeles for a job interview with oversee.net, but I turned him down. (The mention of Yahoo/Google employees was part of his pitch, incidentally.) Heh… go to buy a domain name, get a job offer from a shady purveyor of fine domain parking products. Cute.