Too bad Dave Mastio didn’t mention his nasty habit of stealing content to power his sites. He does, however, have enough courtesy to send you a note after he has stolen your content.

The difference between “regular” bloggers and the Thief Dave Mastio is that we add value to news stories, while the Thief Dave Mastio just steals everything he can get his hands on, and adds nothing to the proposition. Not one original thought or word does he create.

BlogNetNews Iowa has been a steaming pile of failure. BNN Iowa’s hit count is so anemic it makes Calista Flockhart look obese in comparison. So as far as “RightyBlogs” being a place where the bloggers can benefit – we doubt that in the extreme. The Thief Dave Mastio has far more to gain from our unwilling participation than do we. We have the hits he covets (in the hope of spinning them to gold), and he in turn give us – nothing!

InMuscatine.com content is remarkably easy to obtain – one need only ask – but the Thief Dave Mastio has stolen our content twice now without even doing that. So, to our way of thinking Dave Mastio is a lazy thief, and a failure at running a “news” aggregator.