Lesson From Andrew On How Not to Blog
How to piss your reader off in no time?
John Chow wrote a review about a blog called AndrewTalk.com. It is quite entertaining review as Andrew, the owner of AndrewTalk.com, ordered USD 400 to John Chow to review his blog hoping that John Chow will give him a good review, and therefore increase the traffic to his blog.
Well, the traffic did increase, but not in favorable way. In the review, John Chow slapped Andrew’s face because John Chow found out that Andrew’s blog contained articles copied from John’s blog and other blogs! Since Andrew has stolen John’s blog contents, it remains a mystery to me why Andrew ordered a blog review from John. 
After this incident, Andrew decided to remove all pirated articles and decided to start anew.
In my opinion, it is not necessary for him to quickly remove all contents. As Guy Kawasaki quoted in By the Numbers: How I built a Web 2.0, User-Generated Content, Citizen Journalism, Long-Tail, Social Media Site for $12,107.09, there is no such thing as bad PR. Since many people visited his blog after this incident, Andrew can just continue his blog and fight back with John Chow. The traffic will increase even more (in evil way) for sure. 
Please don’t do what Andrew did. I am against copying other people’s content as-is. I encountered too many blogs owners just copy and paste other people’s blogs without modification at all, and yet the-so-called-author claims that he/she wrote the content. It shows that the author has no creativity and too lazy to think. Good blog, in my opinion, should be original, and yet it educates and entertains its reader.
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