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Splogging – Don’t Do It

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I wrote about my splogged content. I then wrote about my seeming inability to act. To recap… Content splogged, me mad, me ineffectual. I have since made sure that my Creative Commons is up-to-date (it was) and added a widget to add it to my feeds. I decided against moving to partial feeds because my readers were very vocal about their hatred of them.What I did not do, which I will do immediately after posting this, is do another search on my links (can someone tell me how to do this OTHER than Technorati links to you?) and ask for my content be removed. And keep track and follow up. Why didn’t I do this before?? I am leery of confrontation. I’m small potatoes. I was afraid of a fight I couldn’t win. I’m not afraid anymore. (update: went to find my content again, and couldn’t find it.  Disappeared?  WHY didn’t I bookmark or make screenshots?!)

This is my content. Mine. I created it. I thought of it. I took the time and energy and thought to put it out there. Unless I have specifically allowed you to use my content, you’re not allowed to use it for profit.

You are free to share, copy, distribute, display, and perform the work under the following conditions:

  • Attribution. You must attribute this work to Michele (with link).
  • Noncommercial. You may not use this work for commercial purposes.
  • No Derivative Works. You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work.
  • For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work. The best way to do this is with a link to this web page.
  • Any of the above conditions can be waived if you get permission from the copyright holder.
  • Nothing in this license impairs or restricts the author’s moral rights.

It’s fairly clear to me. You make money off my stuff without my permission, it’s theft, pure and simple.

Twitter informed me of this newest case of splogging, and Twitter has allowed me an action to take. Here I am. Some others have been splogged – bigger potatoes than me – all by blognetnews.com, with editor, Dave Mastio. I’m not hyperlinking, they don’t need ad traffic from me. I refuse to give it to them, however, I do encourage you to look it up yourself and see if you’re one of their stable of bloggers. Without compensation/permission. I am not one of them. Please be sure to look and make sure you’re not too.

The whole thing makes me sick. It makes me angry. It makes me tired. It makes me feel used.

Really.

Sometimes I write something I’m really proud of.  Sometimes, it’s crap, but I’m writing.  Sometimes it’s memories I don’t want to forget.  Please don’t abuse this interesting media of peering into the minds of others.  Don’t twist it.

My Community

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So, last night, The Queen of Spain twitterized a video chat session. I went ahead and logged on. I just text chatted, while the other ladies (and there was a dude too, but I never caught who he was) were on video chats. That’ll happen soon – I have a camera on my new! computer! coming!

Along with QoS, was GeekMommy, Schmutzie (didn’t get to chat much with her), ToThink, Crunchy Carpets, and TheMacMommy.  These are all new to me bloggers, except Queen of Spain.  Actually, I’d heard of them, just never actually read them before.  My point is this – these were all new peeps for me.  I’m now twitting them, and I’ve bookmarked them for perusal.

First let me just say – it was fun.  Real time chatting, while seeing pretty faces, in an unplanned (I think?) “hey let’s talk” kind of way.

Unless I totally barged into a party that was thought out, in which case, mea culpa.

However, this isn’t the point – I’m just setting you up.

My point is this…  I’m a blogger for three reasons.

  1. Journal my life/a marking of the passage of time for my family
  2. Impart information/react to information
  3. Community

For me personally, I don’t make friends easilly.  I’m busy, I’m distracted, and I’m stressed.  I don’t have a lot of time, and the time that I do have is often designated for survival activities – until about 8pm pacific (ie: kids’ bedtimes.)  I feel that this is the case for everyone, not just me.  I think it’s harder to make a buck, harder to keep kids out of trouble, and harder to keep the household in order.  As a result – it’s hard to maintain relationships and friendships.

We’re in an online world now.  I believe it is the natural evolution of things – I think we go the way technology guides us.  We’re a bit isolated.  We’re solitary.

While all this is true, and more – I’m sure writers more eloquent than I have succeeded – what I love about blogging is community.   A sappy word that I’m not sure truly identifies what I want to say here, but I cannot think of a synonym at the moment.   In those women (and unidentifiable male?  Help?) I saw different blogging styles, different lifestyles, different political and religious beliefs, different experience levels – both in life and in blogging – and yet.

And yet.

There we all were.  Talking about blogging – but as women are wont to do – it bounced.  Subject to subject, interest to interest.

A group of women.  Talking.  Together.  Ultimately, isn’t that the point?

I truly love it.

This is my community.

what i do online each day

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Each day, there are specific things I do online…  My “dailies” so to speak.

Mondays – the weekly stuff

I’m also working on my review site, but I’m not ready to start publicizing it really yet.

It’s all organized neatly in bookmarks and my foxpro buttons, so it’s fairly quick.  I’m able to do everything but the blogging before the kids wake up.

So, what do YOU do online everyday?

Nothing I Can Do

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Well…  There’s nothing I can do really…  The are long excerpts, not the whole thing – the excerpt, plus the link, means it basically sucks, and there’s basically nothing I can do.

I am going to be taking some steps for prevention of this in the future, however.  And yes that could mean partial feeds.  I’ve already gotten feedback that I will not be read due to that.

I’ve decided that if I go that route, and I’m not read because people want don’t want to click over?  That’s ok.  Sucks, but ok.  I need to do whatever I’m comfortable with.  I’m not sure what that looks like yet – but the only thing I’m selling here on my blog is me.

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