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Dawn wrote:
Rebecca wrote:
I doubt anyone is going to rob me of my copywritten material anyhow...I am not a famous author nor do I plan to become one. I can barely get myself bathed every day, let alone write a book.  |
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ROTFL, Rebecca!! Though this is a fine example of why you *should* think about writing a book - you have such a wonderful writing style!  |
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Aw, shucks, Dawn!  Thanks! I call my writing style "Vague Thoughts about Nothing Imparticular" or "The Wandering Mind".
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| I too have thought about that copyright thing ~ maybe changing it to DRH instead? I cannot believe anyone is looking to lift any of my posts, but truth be told, I do have a book percolating in the back of my mind ~ though I *highly* doubt it will find its way out of there! |
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OOH! OOH! Keep percolating! Any hints, pray tell? 
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| And if I remember correctly, isn't a blog copyright more of a deterrent than actual protection? I never filed any paperwork, for instance. |
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I think you could just do initials. Maybe Lissa would know. She is the blog expert extraordinaire! I didn't file anything either. I actually decided to remove my copyright notice from my blog. When I went to remove it today, I noticed that it had vanished. It wasn't in the sidebar at all. I don't know where it went but it was there the other day! Well, at least I don't have to remove it!
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Karen E. wrote:
| And I REALLY hate knowing that someone who is googling for p*rn related stuff has clicked to my page (I've seen that through Site Meter ... you can see what someone has Googled for). I'm sure they leave quickly when they see what my blog is, but still .... Yuck. |
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Are Site Meter reports the same thing as watching my stats and referrers at Typepad?
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Karen E. wrote:
| And I REALLY hate knowing that someone who is googling for p*rn related stuff has clicked to my page (I've seen that through Site Meter ... you can see what someone has Googled for). I'm sure they leave quickly when they see what my blog is, but still .... Yuck. |
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The closest I've come to this is when someone googled "I LOve Bobby Convey." I'm sure they were surpised to see who loves Bobby Convey and Bobby and I got a big giggle out of it. I WAS a bit disturbed to find the other things that come up when you google that phrase though... 
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I was thinking again about this when I was packing our pool bag, which has "Foss" monogrammed on it. When I called to order backpacks at LL Bean several years ago, the woman taking my order was adamant that I not monogram them. She said it was a bad idea for strangers to know my kids' names. Good point. It follows that it's probably not a good idea for anyone at the pool or the park to know our last name, huh? But we register at campgrounds...and when we were building our house, the builder put a sign out in the lot that said "future home of Foss Family." And my boys wear jerseys with their names on it when they play soccer and basketball and their names are printed in programs. I guess my point is that it's hard to keep their names from being public. Michael's entire player profile is up on the web because that's how college scouts access his player information. I couldn't get it to come up when I googled, though...Just thinking out loud.
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Our last name is embroidered on our pool bag, too. And then there's me calling the kids across the pool - I suppose it wouldn't be too hard to put 2 and 2 together.
Me? I try not to think about it too much, or I'd go crazy.
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Dawn wrote:
| One thing I do is not have my blog "public" at Typepad which means they never mention it or publish updates about it. So mainly people find it because I tell them about it, or they link to me through another blog or I guess stumble on it through a search. One time someone found me when they searched for red squirrels! |
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Dawn, I just want to thank you for this. I have the two blogs, but only one was receiving spam. Nothing bad, just annoying. I rechecked my settings and it was set to publish updates on the main Blogspirit site. So, main problem solved. I do have my settings set to add to search engines, though.
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