Comments on: Are You Using Your Blog as a Note Reminder and Storage?

By: Sardian

Sardian — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:05:55 +0000

Mom,Thanks for vistiing my blog and leaving your sweet message. I’m just happy that I inherited some of your artistic genes! I am glad you liked the new gallery pictures. It is in a really pretty part of downtown and I can’t wait until you come up here and see it for yourself.Much love,Jennifer

By: My Blog is a Resource For Me. Is It? : The Blog Herald

My Blog is a Resource For Me. Is It? : The Blog Herald — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:15:49 +0000

[...] A blog isn’t a notebook. It isn’t a scratch paper for you and your ideas. Once you hit publish, it’s out there, visible, searchable, findable – where all the eyes of the world have the potential to read it. Are you sure you want people reading the equivalent of what you used to scratch on a paper napkin? [...]

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 06:09:50 +0000

Actually, the first point and tip I make is about Fair Use.

By: Rose DesRochers

Rose DesRochers — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 19:31:10 +0000

Lorelle, excellent article. Recently I helped someone get content removed from a blog. The blogger who took the content said he had no idea that he was violating copyright as he was just using his blog as a way to store things.

By: Jonathan Bailey

Jonathan Bailey — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 19:20:46 +0000

Some good tips there, I”d remind everyone though that the minute you post something to the Web in a public place, it doesn’t matter if it was only intended to yourself or not, it is available to the world and the infringement can be treated accordingly.

It doesn’t matter if it is your Myspace profile or your huge dot com enterprise, it’s just as public.

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 17:45:41 +0000

Tips, guides, how to, options, recommendations, and suggestions. That’s all these are. No one is setting rules.

Many people haven’t given much thought to the fact that they can “hide” their blog and make it private. So this is an option they now know about.

And things are regulated on the web, by state, country, and international law. Don’t think you can do anything you want on the web that you couldn’t do elsewhere. If you publish something on the web, you are exposing yourself to libel, defamation, copyright violations, and a lot of ugly things.

The web is not exempt from society’s laws.

By: Ptah dunbar

Ptah dunbar — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 16:14:04 +0000

First off,

I totally see your point here, but the whole..

If your blog is for you, and only a notebook for your life, thoughts, and research material, consider making your blog private. Turn it off from the rest of the world and make it your spot on the web for you, and just you.

..doesn’t sound like you can make such a claim.

It’s their Blog.

They can do whatever they like with it(legally), they bought the domain AND hosting so someone telling them what they can’t do like what’s stated in the above quotes, isn’t gonna fly.

Maybe the blog IS just for them, that doesn’t mean they have to keep it private. It’s their choice.. and most likely since they have a blog in the first place, they may want it online and viewable for their friends or what have you.

Those that don’t want to see it, well… don’t go to their site! It’s a free internet. Nothings regulated here.

By: Angela Parker

Angela Parker — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 13:11:38 +0000

Although I never intended my blog to be a tool to help me remember things, that’s exactly what has happened…not because that was the intention, but rather because I wanted to share the excellent resources or bits of information I found.

As a writer, I’m extremely careful about copyright issues and always link back to my source, using only a “synopsis” if I refer to someone else’s thoughts or writings.

A fair number of my blogs are information too good to keep to myself — including online resources. Once I recognized the value of a blog to record things (for my readers and myself) I have tried to gather the information I want to share in logical “chunks” and I make sure there are three or five of these in a given context or on a particular topic.

I’ve noticed that my readership has improved since I started doing regular and semi-regular resource blogs among my standard entries and I’ve noticed that I tend to search my own archives for information more often now.

Maybe it’s making me mentally lazy, but I like being able to look up the name of that great ebook site with the weird name or that open-source software program that does a particular function without scouring my local notes and my readers seem to appreciate doing the same.