Originally Posted by American Psycho

what i want to do depends on how are the duplicate penalties enforced.
are there partial penalties making my site a rank a bit lower than another with all original content or would a duplicate penalty go on the whole site and wipe out all its SERPS from the SE?

if i can get by with 1000 blogs using rss w/ no maintenance and still get some serps then ill do that and then also spend more time on some better ones.