I, personally, am using my own articles with Rss2B (either PLR or my original ones)
and of course using merchant Datafeeds as well.
Or using other programs for Creating my own datafeeds/rss feeds from articles or offers.

On the other hand IF it does Not have to be “just Rss feeds” there are services which you can get articles from for your site or blog automatically. One of them I am using is Unique Article Wizard which will send you articles for your site or blog. They even have plugins for couple of blog platforms where you can get the articles straight to your blog as posts with the option to have them manually approved or posted automatically.

Of course these articles Do have the Resources box at the bottom from the authors of these articles.
However, in my opinion, if you use them as ‘addons’ to Your own articles there shouldn’t be a problem and your blog keeps being more fresh and more interesting.

#2.) If that would be true then the ’syndication’ alone would not have any sense and would’ve disappeared long time ago, and none of the News sites would actually exist! They all take from each other, but that’s ok, since not all of us watch/read the same news/stories/articles from the Same Sources, right?

#3.) That being said one has always to take into the consideration that “rules” are Never the same for the small guy as they are for the Big Dogs. So we have to be more careful, more flexible, more ’smart’
= in the case of the RSS f.e. either you ‘mash’ your rss feeds so they are Not the same like everybody’s else, or you simply Add Your Own content to it.

That were/are those sites - usually MFA only - which didn’t have anything else on them but Rss feeds and Adsense Only which got punished.

And the same basically happened to those pure Affiliate datafeed sites - although here I don’t understand ‘why’ since merchant datafeeds usually Do bring a ‘value’ to the customer, as they get what they are looking for…

I am still using datafeeds but never as a “sole content” for my sites.

Unless of course you are willing to do “other ways” of marketing/advertising for your site.
And don’t think you cannot make big $$$ without the Search Engines! Just start playing “Media Advertising game” and you will Never Ever need to know some snooty Search engines “rules” even exist!

steve