•'Wikipedia killer' pilfers blogosphere, taunts bloggers
Register, UK
Ulitzer bills itself as a new-age website that will somehow replace the cult of Wikipedia. And judging from the online farce that followed the site's Friday beta launch, it's off to a good start. Floated by Sys-Con - a New Jersey-based company that ...

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One of the articles currently on the Ulitzer front page is this one blasting Ulitzer... so, at least, they don't appear to have a BADSITES-ish inclination to suppress criticism.

They probably don't know about it yet--looks like they are using scripts to harvest material.

I blogged today about Ulitzer and Sys-Con. They apparently are not just stealing blogger's articles and passing them off as original content......they're also attacking the bloggers who object to their activities. And so, the natives are getting restless. There have been a lot of submissions to Reddit and Digg criticizing Sys-Con, just in the last 2 days.

AND Sys-con ran those Maureen O'Gara attacks on Groklaw.

The Sys-Con CEO sounds like the Jimbo and the David Gerard and the Durova of software-development news, all in one chubby little Turkish package.....he has made a LOT of enemies in the last few years.

What's really weird is one of the authors, Kym Jones, is using this photo from Wikimedia Commons;



This is on the Red hair page, and the original is from Flickr. Hmmmm

The pages to which it is attributed consist mostly of artfully provocative photographs of attractive young female models:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/clouddinner

Sys Con? The people who hired Laura Didio (and apparently Re-hired her after she released a stalker ish article on Pamela Jones of Groklaw?)

So the whole thing could be an elaborate April Fools' Day hoax?