Has Your Content Been Stolen?

Has your content been stolen? This can happen to any honest blogger who is always writing posts by himself. Someone might simply take advantage out of it and steal whatever posts he likes. There are at least a few different ways you can react in such situation:

1. Remain silent and do not do anything while telling yourself that you do not care about it. Sometimes if is not worth to do anything about it.
2. Contact the scraper by email and ask him to remove the stolen content from his blog. The problem is that he might not listen to you. Sometimes it might be even hard to find a way to contact him.
3. Use a Wordpress plug-in (such as RSS footer from joostdevalk.nl/wordpress/rss-footer/) that will automatically link back to your site from the website of a scraper where he published your post. This plug-in might be very useful if you want to stay informed about any attempts of stealing your content. Of course, simply knowing about your content being published somewhere will not remove it.

Overall, there are not many things you can do if your content is being stolen by some unknown website. On the other hand, webmasters of popular websites may be afraid that you might spread the news of what they did.

March 1st, 2010 - Posted in About Blogging, About Internet, Technology, Websites | | 7 Comments

Gossip on the Internet

These days everybody can be a writer, publisher, or an author. That is true because anyone can create a blog or a website. Most of the websites in the world might not be that high quality, as a lot of them do not contain any original content. The qualifications of webmasters may also vary. After all, not everybody graduated from English studies or has Ph.D. in linguistics. The Internet is a place where many people speak out their minds and share their opinions. It is also a place, where a lot of gossip starts about celebrities, the world of politics, or even our everyday life. I was wondering recently how a person can distinguish between real facts and gossip. Fortunately, there are some ways to do so. On the Internet, there are sites that aim is to stop gossip and fight with scams. Sites like truthorfiction.com and factcheck.org are a good example. When in doubt whether a site you are visiting is reliable, check them out. Those sites can also benefit you in other ways besides letting you know about gossips. Very often, gossips are not that harmful, but spyware and malware can be very harmful. If you visit truthorfiction.com, you will see that this website can help you avoid problems related to scams and viruses which you can get from your email box. You might get infected very easily by opening an email which you should not trust in the first place. You need to be aware that there are many people who are sending phony emails in order to infect your computer with malicious software. Many of them use popular scams in order to achieve it, so it is important to know how to recognize them. How about you? How do you protect yourself?

October 28th, 2009 - Posted in Technology, Websites | | 4 Comments

Switching to Newer Windows

Windows 7 will get released in October. However, at the moment the most popular operating systems are Windows XP and Windows Vista. Even though many people still use older versions of Windows, many of them have been wondering whether they should purchase the newest version of Windows, namely Windows Vista. If the overall graphical presentation matters to you, then you will be happy with what Windows Vista has to offer you:

-There is no doubt that the developers of Vista wanted this OS to look very appealing. Vista looks a lot better than any other OS before. Windows Vista takes advantage of so-called Aero glass interface. Aero stands for Authentic, Energetic, Reflective, and Open.
-The Start button is definitely smaller, and thus will take less place on your desktop. The icons are intended to be smaller too. Even though the graphics is not everything, nicer looking interface add to the enjoyment of working in Windows Vista.

October 1st, 2009 - Posted in Technology | | 3 Comments