Monday, June 30, 2008

Someone stole my blog!

Last Friday, it was an off day for me at work and I had restarted my blogging. I churned out 3 new blogs and re wrote one of my old blog. I was just sitting in front of my laptop the whole damn day. I just got completely hooked. My wife even complained "enough of this blogging, let's go out for sometime." Last 3 days, I have been busy exploring ways to market my blog better to reach out to more people and make the blog more presentable. Only then I realized there is a whole new world out there and seems like I am one of the last few to catch the Blogging Bus. Interestingly, I had opened this account 3-4 years back, and have been blogging on and off. But, the way the blogging world has expanded, matured and commercialized over the years is just phonomenal.
So, I think it was saturday morning, my wife was busy in the kitchen and I was browsing the internet. There was a comment from someone in one of my blogs. I was impressed. Not bad, just one day into blogging, I have comments already. I was excited and told my wife about it. So, I casually went to see the blog of the person who had made the comment. That is when I had quite a shock. One of my blog was stolen! I saw one of my writings "Tips for effective customer interaction" in his website. Holy shit, I was quite perturbed. Looks like someone has walked in to my blog and lifted one of my writings without bothering to inform me or give credits to me.
On one hand, I was elated that someone felt my writing was good enough to be stolen but at the same time, it really irritated me. Have any of you guys ever had this experience of stumbling into your own writing in someone else website? After some stinkers, He dragged himself to mention my name is one remote corner without giving link to my website.
But for this lone episode, blogging has been a pleasure so far. I have got to interact with many interesting people.

2 comments:

Innovative minds at work said...

Hey

I read your post.... u hv very rightly said, it feels so bad, if someone steals your post, and on top of it - doesnt evrn mention yr name.

you can try placing an icon of - http://www.copyscape.com and then u can find out if anyone has stolen your article....

BPO Dude said...

Innovative minds at work - Thanks Pal.I checked that copyscape. Probably i will add that to my page.