Stay tuned for the eHow UK Scam Part Trois. Or be smart and run like hell.”

Nice, relevant, injection of ‘Apolo Ohno’, Kim…..

…unfortunately, the part about “running like hell”, made me think of another Olympian, Usaine Bolt (last Summer Olympic Gold medalist)…..and, even worse, I came to the realization that this scam could very well be flourishing long enough to see the next Summer Olympic Games (in which case, I would expect a mention of Usaine Bolt in one of your future posts….lol)…..

Let’s hope not. Fingers-crossed.

Your own recent post about your eHow UK compensation was interesting. I’m guess eHow made far more than the $1.30 they “compensated” you for “borrowing” your articles. Readers might want to check out Rachel’s blog.

As I read your comment, it occurred to me that Rosenblatt could have saved a good deal of eHow’s net worth by either: 1. Not stealing content in the first place, or 2. Compensating properly and fairly after being caught. Because the Internet has a memory.

Any investor can run a quick search of the phrase, “ehow is a scam” (in quotes, or results are skewed to unrelated articles) and find 9,170 results. Try it. Okay, now search “InfoBarrel is a scam.” There are 0 results. ZERO. But InfoBarrel is relatively new, so let’s look at “HubPages is a scam,” and consider those 5 results, four of which are actually stating that HupPages is NOT a scam and used the phrase for attention. Zero for “Squidoo is a scam.” Those three COMBINED have 5 search results for their names, in quotes, associated with the phrase, “is a scam.” eHow has 9,170 not counting “eHow UK scam,” at 1,480.

Do you think future investors will consider that significant? They will if they care about their money. Because those numbers will catch up with you, Demand Media, if they haven’t already.

By scheming to deprive writers of their earnings, during the winter holidays, during one of the worst economic times this country has known, history will show that for want of principles, the Demand Media-eHow kingdom was ultimately lost. And that is as it should be.