Tonight purely by chance I discovered that someone has hijacked my feed at least partially.

As far as I can tell, this is happening only to people who subscribed to my feed through Bloglines’ "Add to Bloglines" bookmarklet.  I’ve been checking every resource I can think of to contact technical support at Bloglines by phone, but unfortunately they make this extremely difficult to do.  While I’m sure that Bloglines probably has a after-hours NOC, I can’t find any way to reach them.

Here’s the deal:  If you are read my site’s feed through Bloglines, please go to the "edit subscription" area for my particular feed.  If you see the following for the feed’s URL:

Please unsubscribe from it immediately.  It is a bogus feed.  I have nothing to do with that feed source other than they are stealing my content and putting advertising on it.  As soon as I figure out how to shut that other feed down, I will.

Please then subscribe to the correct feed for my site which is http://feeds.feedburner.com/Scott-O-Rama

While I’ve been aware that spam blogs have been taking the content from my feed and publishing it on their sites, this is the first I am aware of anyone actually hijacking the feed.  It’s especially disturbing to me because it can happen directly from my site itself.  All someone needs to do is be on my blog’s webpage and use their "Add to Bloglines" bookmarklet to be given the wrong feed.  I don’t understand how it’s happening, but once I know, I intend to do everything in my power to stop it up to and including legal action.  I’ve triple-checked all the code on my blog which leads me to believe it might be a security issue with Bloglines.  If that’s the case, it’s quite a serious flaw in their service.

Thank you, and if you don’t understand a word of this post, don’t worry about it.

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