Blog Crime and Copyright Infringment
Checked your blog for content theft lately? While the Internet has become an essential part of our lives, it's also a rip-off channel for blog crime and copyright infringement thieves who steal copyrighted material. People steal intellectual property when copying your blog content to their sites. Sending threatening letters about copyright infringement to website and blog owners, their ISP's and their domain registrars is time-consuming for legitimate bloggers and frequently ineffective in … [Read more...]
Newspapers Losing Readers With Irrelevant Content
Reading through this morning's San Jose Mercury News reinforced my belief that U.S. newspapers are contributing to their demise by printing stories that are, in many cases, irrelevant to the majority of readers. The word "relevant" has an interesting origin. The dictionary says it derives from medieval Latin in the 16th century meaning "raising up." Instead of "relevant" then, we might ask ourselves: "are newspapers raising us up?" Are they enlightening us about events and issues that might … [Read more...]