So… Dave has a lot of things to say this “new” idea of his to repackage other people’s content. Of course, as soon as someone points out that it isn’t new, he says “Well, no, but I’m the one who is making it popular.”
Heaven help you, though, if you make an idea of his popular and try to take the credit for it.
Even if we ignore the fact that these “newsrivers” are (in violation of a lot of licenses) repackaging content and infringing on trademarks (via domain name)… let’s look at the hypocrisy of it. Dave hates that users can choose to click an autolink button and change his content by adding links.
Yet he has no problem changing someone else’s content and then serving it up to unsuspecting readers as though nothing has changed.
Dave is doing significantly more harm here than Google was.