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Labels and categories

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Geez, I'm thinking I need to go back through my posts to focus their categories and labels, so if one of you is interested in something (I've) written on a topic, it's easy to find correlated posts, if you have time to read them.  Happily, Google's search capabilities within blogs are good (I use it all the time to find connections on mine), but I was admiring the nice category clouds and lists on other blogs. 

I'd like to create a reasonable (small) category list, but obviously my personally generated labels (by Google standards) are all over.  Hmm.  Going back and sorting though posts and adding more 
general labels for posts seems necessary to do so, though.  Yikes, that could take awhile.

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Blogging about nature and gardens

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Oh, my - the Blogger dashboard says this is my 700th post.

I certainly didn't imagine that as I started gingerly making posts about my gardening activities and nature observations 2 and 1/2 years ago.

As a stymied nature and garden journal writer in paper format, I've obviously enjoyed this format much more. On paper, I was always thinking about wanting to change what I'd written (much easier to revise online), fussy about my drawings and sketches (not bad, but not like photographs), and I'd forget to make notes about gardening activities or nature sightings.

The blogging format was a revelation.

I can sit down in the evening, reflect on the most interesting thing(s) I did or saw that day in the garden or in nature, and record it. Sometimes I have photos, sometimes not, but it's always a grounding experience, connecting me with where I live, garden, and experience nature.

I started out simply writing for my own records and enjoyment, and I still do. But, I'm glad if what I reflect on is of interest to others -- that is, you, too.

Thanks for being part of my nature and garden community.

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Blogging and copyright issues

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

I enjoy writing posts on my blog because it connects me with my garden, hones my observation skills, and is an online journal that not only serves as my reflections at that point in time, but also is a record of what I'm noticing in the garden and beyond.

It's also been a delightful way to interact with other bloggers, other gardeners, and other nature lovers.

So I was surprised today to receive both a comment and a direct email alerting me to a "blog" that's taking posts from legitimate sites, and re-posting them, using a convoluted English to English translation to repackage the text (quite oddly and humorously, actually), but using the same titles and the photographs. They'd noticed that some of my posts were among them.

Kathy, at Skippy's Vegetable Garden, posted about these folks on Monday Oct. 26, who are probably located abroad somewhere. She's had a number of recent posts snagged; in a quick search, I found seven of my posts.

At first, I thought it was inconsequential, since the text of the posts is totally strange post-translation. But then, after reading the comments on Kathy's blog, and seeing my photographs on this other blog, including a post that included views from the windows in my house, and another post that included a photo of me showing dogwood berries to a group of intent young girls (taken by a local newspaper reporter and published in the print version of her paper), it does strike me as a bit much.

And thanks to a net-savvy reader, we know who to complain to about this particular blog. I couldn't figure out why someone would steal content in this strange format, but she suggested that it was to increase the Google rank of their site. Perhaps they think their domain will become some ad-revenue source?

In a quick web search, I found some excellent information at this site about copyright issues.

Perhaps it'll be helpful to some of you!

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