Recently Vince of AmBlogger.net made a bit of a faux pas. He presumably idolises Darren Rowse’s ProBlogger.net (or at least it’s layout) enough to pretty much entirely rip it(’s visuals) off.

At some stage Darren found out about it and after some communications between them Darren posted about it on ProBlogger. His post was relatively gracious and not bitter, evidence of Darren’s good character. Many of his readers and spectators however, were not nearly so forgiving.

On the extreme we have people like Cowboy of JackOfAllBlogs.com, who in reference to Vince said he’d like to “rip you a new asshole”. Even the average commenter seemed to lean on the side of virtual lynch-mob-dom, for the most part.

Personally I think it’s largely overblown. Sure if he’d ripped off CNN or something similar he’d be hearing from the lawyers, but
from a glance at his postings I truly don’t think Darren would be losing income of it.

References:
AmBlogger.net (Google cache)
ProBlogger.net (the one and only?)
JackOfAllBlogs.com
Cnn.com