Julie's Web Journal

I've been doing some more reading on the topic, which is why you now see a byline on every post. It's a silly looking byline to be sure, but it's something I can plug into Google so I can watch for content theft. I have a copyright statement both on this page and in the RSS feed, but I'm going to be looking into a Creative Commons license.

Paranoid? Maybe.

Maybe not. You may recall an earlier post in which I mentioned someone was hotlinking one of my pictures and using it as a background on their web journal.

I don't get paid for blogging. The photographs I post I do for fun. But dang it, that doesn't mean that someone else has a license to steal what I've created.

I really do fear that if I expose the full content of my posts in my feed that my journal will be used to help line someone else's pockets. If any pockets are to be lined, how about starting with mine? No, no, no, I do not plan on offering up ads. But dang it, if you're going to make some money off of me, what's wrong with asking for a piece of the pie? This is what I do professionaly. People pay me to write copy. People pay me to write short stories. Sure, they make money (I hope) off of the deal, but so do I.

This is not to say that I wouldn't give permission for someone to post entries from my journal or photographs. At a minimum I want permission and attribution. Is that too much to ask?

I do look for signs of plagiarism, and so far I've found none. Is this because I don't expose the full feeds, or because my content isn't worth swiping? I have enough of an ego (bruised though it may be) to hope it isn't the latter.

So, let me ask the few of you who subscribe to this journal: Would you like see the entire post in your feed? Or even a larger excerpt like I used to do? If you subscribe, how do you subscribe? Please leave a comment and let me know. I'm really curious. Referral logs don't give a complete answer.

As always, thanks for reading. Really.

Tags: Writing, Plagiarism
Filed under: Writing   Plagiarism           

Lisa said:
Well, I am no help with this one. I don't use RSS. I just have not had 2 minutes to spare to figure it out how to get it set up. Whatever benefits you the most and keeps people from stealing would be fine with me.
Date: 6/12/2006 1:45:14 PM Date: 6/12/2006 1:45:14 PM

julie said:
Not lame at all. I'm interested in how people find this journal and how they read the content. Thanks for the response.
Date: 6/12/2006 1:50:18 PM Date: 6/12/2006 1:50:18 PM

Jonathan Bailey said:
First off, your concerns aren't crazy. I agree with them myself and have written about them many times on my site.
Date: 6/12/2006 5:54:56 PM Date: 6/12/2006 5:54:56 PM

julie said:
Thanks for stopping by. I do use Feedburner, and will look into exposing the full feed via that service.
Date: 6/12/2006 6:30:44 PM Date: 6/12/2006 6:30:44 PM

Karen Funk Blocher said:
I've seen more and more of this weird feed stuff on Technorati - my posts turning up as links on splogs about tennis or some other irrelevancy. I'm not quite sure what to do about it, having given permission to TucsonsNews to run my feed. But usually they seem to be a sentence and a link, not the whole post.
Date: 6/12/2006 9:09:54 PM Date: 6/12/2006 9:09:54 PM

Steven said:
I read with Bloglines and full feeds are good. I think you could get by with summaries as you do blog with descriptive titles.
Date: 6/12/2006 11:12:37 PM Date: 6/12/2006 11:12:37 PM

Lisa said:
Well, I am no help with this one. I don't use RSS. I just have not had 2 minutes to spare to figure it out how to get it set up. Whatever benefits you the most and keeps people from stealing would be fine with me.
Date: 6/12/2006 1:45:14 PM Date: 6/12/2006 1:45:14 PM

julie said:
Not lame at all. I'm interested in how people find this journal and how they read the content. Thanks for the response.
Date: 6/12/2006 1:50:18 PM Date: 6/12/2006 1:50:18 PM

Jonathan Bailey said:
First off, your concerns aren't crazy. I agree with them myself and have written about them many times on my site.
Date: 6/12/2006 5:54:56 PM Date: 6/12/2006 5:54:56 PM

julie said:
Thanks for stopping by. I do use Feedburner, and will look into exposing the full feed via that service.
Date: 6/12/2006 6:30:44 PM Date: 6/12/2006 6:30:44 PM

Karen Funk Blocher said:
I've seen more and more of this weird feed stuff on Technorati - my posts turning up as links on splogs about tennis or some other irrelevancy. I'm not quite sure what to do about it, having given permission to TucsonsNews to run my feed. But usually they seem to be a sentence and a link, not the whole post.
Date: 6/12/2006 9:09:54 PM Date: 6/12/2006 9:09:54 PM

Steven said:
I read with Bloglines and full feeds are good. I think you could get by with summaries as you do blog with descriptive titles.
Date: 6/12/2006 11:12:37 PM Date: 6/12/2006 11:12:37 PM

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