The craziest thing just happened to me. I had just posted to my blog. Then literally minutes later, my post was word for word on someone elses blog. The freaky part was that this guys blog was totally in German, except for my post. Now the way I found out was, I went to make a comment on my blog, its new by the way so I gotta do what I gotta do, and when I went to approve my comment I saw his there as well with a link. Now I didn't mind there was link there. I'm hip. So I click on it, there was my post in full glory on this German blog. How the heck did he do this, and how do I keep it from happpening again?
He probably runs an auto blog. RSS content scraper. Use partial feeds. If you don't want your content on his blog, contact him and ask him to stop doing that.
Yeah, there are a bunch of people out there who likes to steal other's hard work. Anyway, what gr8liverpoolfan said is right. Set your feeds to only show an excerpt of your posts and ask the site's owner to remove your contents from his site. If he refuses/can't be contacted ask his host to take down his site.
Thanks for the tip I will do that. At least the second person provided a link back but she had another site name in the visible text though the hyper link went to my site. What a crazy start to my bloggin adventure.