Over the past 24 hours, I've been a part of a rather interesting email thread between about a dozen bloggers started by Greg Swann over at the BloodHoundBlog.  It started because content from some blog RSS feeds were being republished on the InmanWiki. 

Many sites out there that aggregate and republish content from blog RSS feeds in one form or another, the InmanWiki was just one example (technorati, bloglines, squidoo, etc).  Sometimes this resyndication cab viewed as a very valuable source of exposure, other times they can be seen as stealing content.  This creates a huge grey area around the rules of content syndication.  The arguement could even be made by some that, simply by providing and RSS feed on your blog you are tacitly giving permission for your content to be resyndicated (of course I'm sure almost all bloggers will argue this is not the case).

Ultimately, almost every blogger seems to have there own view of the issue.  Is it ok, if you just publish a summary of the article with a link back to the original, the full article with a link back, only the title, etc?  Should the blogger need to opt in, or be able to opt out of the resyndication?  Maybe someday someone will come up with some type of standard around allowing bloggers not only to publish and RSS feed but specify how it can be used.

In the Web 2.0 world where it is becoming increasingly difficult to build an island destination where your content lives and people come to read it.  The name of the game is fash becoming more about pushing content out and "being everywhere" to maximize the number of eyeballs that you get.  It's something all real estate bloggers will have to think about in their marketing strategy, where does the tradeoff lie between maximizing eyeballs, and maximizing control over the destination to maximize your personal benefit.