Random Thoughts

I received a comment today informing me that someone has posted my content to their Blogger blog without any attribution at all.  I am glad to know this has happened.  I wonder if it has happened before and how common this practice is.

My post Genre was copied on Blogger here.  In looking at the  blog, they are all stolen posts, I think.  There is no consistency of place or topic.

There is a way to report this to Google — but they try to scare you out of it by talking about how you are liable for attorney fees and such. I am reporting it tomorrow, though if there is no response to a comment I left informing “Blogga” that my material is covered by a Creative Commons license.   I am sure that there will be no response to my comment, but I feel obligated to try that first.  It is another thing I can report to Blogger/Google when I report the theft.

UPDATE: 4/23 The post is still there, of course, so I have reported this to Google.  I am not optimistic that they will do anything, judging from the experience of others, but it is worth a try.

I felt a need to change the look of this blog today, but I was unable to find a template in Blogger that I liked better than this one. Isn’t it about time they added more options?

I have played with my portfolio on WordPress over the last few days. Guess that’s where the template envy comes from. I keep saying I am going to migrate this blog to WordPress, but I never do.

Well, today for the first time I was “allowed” to move my blog to the new Blogger. Because I am a member of a group blog, I hadn’t been able to move over yet. I am not sure if/how this will really impact me, but it is interesting. Let’s see if it makes me a better blogger!