1. Content Scraping. A few weeks ago I started getting pingbacks on every blog post I wrote. When I’d go to the site, I could see nothing. Finally I saw that they were stealing all of my content verbatim, and changing the byline. Thankfully a quick email to the offending website’s host provider put a stop to it. Sheesh.
2. Tonight Thing 1 and a girlfriend are making a 4-course dinner for their cooking class in school. It needs to be recorded on video. I’m doing my best biting my tongue and hope cleanup is part of this exercise!
3. I had two 3-milers in this cutback week. At this point in the training, 3 miles seems barely worthy of suiting up.
4. Speaking of cutback weeks, I “only” have 12 miles this weekend Now that I am pumped about.
5. I mentioned how disappointed I was that none of our pumpkin seeds came up this year. Well thanks to a very kind neighbor who did not have a pumpkin-growing problem, this behemoth will be darkening our doorstep this year. It may not look like it, but this sucker is 50+ pounds. Imagine the pie…
What’s fun for you this weekend? Anyone racing? Have you ever had your content stolen?
The illustrator of my book had a woman, who’s are she admired, copy one of her images exactly-lines, details, pose- by tracing it off of a monitor, colored it differently and put it up for sale on her web site. She e-mailed this woman, had the digital proof (the offenders ISP was registered on that specific page for over an hour). The woman pulled the pic, but offered no apology, excuse, etc…All types out there!! It makes me afraid to share my writing, but I do anyway 🙂
Were they pretending they wrote it ? That is awful.
Enjoy your only 12 miles weekend.
Ugh! Sorry about the content scraping. Three miles is still worth it to me. 🙂 Glad you have a 12 miler though since that makes you happy. That is one huge pumpkin!!!
I don’t think my content is worth stealing. 🙂
That pumpkin is insane!
So terrible that people steal so easily – ugg.
Enjoy the 12. Hope you don’t get rained on……
Enjoy the weekend.
Ugh, what about the site that steals my recipe and photos, packages it up with other recipes (probably also scraped) and the SELLS it along with a grocery shopping list for a monthly fee!!!!
Blog stealing? For real??? Some people must really not have anything else to do. Glad you were able to put a stop to it!
That’s not a bad problem to have, 3 miles being easy 😉 Enjoy the cutback and the fresh legs you’ll have going in to next week!
That is so crazy that the site would feel bold enough to repeatedly steal your content! Yikes!
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A 50 lb pumpkin!! Wow! I had a gigantic pumpkin one year and left it out too long, it got kinda messy but it was so fun in the meantime. As for the pie, I don’t know how to bake but I love pumpkin pie!
Content scraping- I have always wondered how those who do it are caught. I was told that someone had their blogger site shut down because someone was stealing their content but blamed her for stealing theirs. How do you protect yourself from that? Also, how do you get ping backs?
Thank you for letting me know the images of my post weren’t showing. I have fixed it 🙂
Don’t you hate when your content is stolen? It has happened to me so many times, I know how frustrating it goes. Weekend is great so far. I am looking forward attending a workshop tomorrow and I will be surely writing about it. 🙂
That’s awful about the content scraping – I don’t understand why some people are so determine to mess with other people’s blogs!!!
Hooray for a “short” long run this weekend!!!
Hope the 4-course dinner went well!!
Wow. A 5 pound pumpkin is huge! Nice neighbor.
Eww content scraping, sounds painful! Haven’t had that happen, but I’ve been getting more than the usual share of spam comments lately. Enjoy the weekend!
i’m always amazed at people who steal content/images. do they not think they will get caught? I’m running the omaha half tomorrow! Just a practice race pace for the marathon 🙂
That’s crazy someone was copying your blog. Glad the admin shut it down.
I love cut back weeks too 🙂
That is crappy that someone would steal your content- really, pretty low. I have had a couple pingbacks on some posts and honestly I do not know what that means? That pumpkin will make fine pies I am sure!
Unbelievable that someone was stealing your content!! That is one serious pumpkin – can’t wait to hear how much baking you’ll get out of that one!
I guess it’s flattering that they deem your content worthy of copying. That’s the nicest spin I could put on it. I’m just confused as to why have a blog if you’re not going to write your own stuff. It’s not like they’re going to get rich off it.