Wow! That was helpful. I think the dark clouds of ignorance that plagued me for years have now parted thanks to your insight and comprehensive reply. Depends what you mean by autoblog. You could always use a wordpress plugin such as Caffeinated Content but it can be a bit temperamental and if you hammer the servers it gets blocked so you have to use it very sparingly. Good plugin, mind you.
You can try WP-O-Matic , WP-Roboto and AutoBlogged they are the most popular plugins for auto posting .. and the are rally good
I used to use cc but bought WP Robot a while back and it does the lot. Costs a bit though, but he keeps it updated. I am using WP Robot on the site in my sig if you wanna see an example.
http://www.snapcontent.comis the latest greatest Wordpress plugin for autoblogging, as far as I'm aware.
As I read it, it just looks like an RSS Aggragator. I take it that there is more to it. How do you use it to not look like an RSS feed?
personally WP O Matic and WP Robot i found were great. make sure you get a duplicate content remover, sometimes they can pull in very very similar content which would look suspicious to your readers also get a unique content spinner plugin on WP (hint!)
Duplicate content on your autoblog is *useless*. here's how you DON'T make it unique:- 1) 'Uniqueifierizer' type products that swap characters for HTML codes. Not only is this useless for SEO purposes (who searches for '&39;&F67s&99G;') but the engines wised up to this trick YEARS ago, and it means an instant ban. 2) Translate to Croatian and back. The resulting syntactic errors in the English text look almost identical to 'Markov' spam from a search engine's perspective. Instant ban. 3) Spin with a cheap spinner. See 2 above.
For a different viewpoint, there is this LINK. It is from a DPer here and is called "WordPress Uniquefier". There are people on that thread that say they have been using it without problems. Especially look at post #54. Here is a LINK. I am a fan of this software even before I buy it. I am not an affiliate either, I just want to hear the plain truth about both sides of the coin before I spend money that I need.