I had been noticing some of the things streaming around twitter involving suing for tweeting something and such. In fact Chris Voss (on Twitter) has a video blog called Rude Tweets or Blogging Can Get You Sued – Video. The New York Times covered the fact that Courtney Love had been sued for saying defamatory
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To Ping Or Not To Ping Your Own Blog
Recently Weblog Tools Collection published an article called Pinging Your Own Blog Posts? Good or Bad? Basically, it is arguing the side that pinging your own blog is bad. According to Wikipedia: A pingback is one of three types of linkbacks, methods for Web authors to request notification when somebody links to one of their
[Continue Reading...]FTC Policy Changes And What It Means For Bloggers
On October 5, 2009, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published FTC Publishes Final Guides Governing Endorsements, Testimonials – Changes Affect Testimonial Advertisements, Bloggers, Celebrity Endorsements. Of course, this issue is debatable on the fact that at this moment it has never been officially said that the Internet was medium, as perceived by WebProNews covers in
[Continue Reading...]Crossposting: Pros, Cons, and Etiquette
Crossposting has sometimes been dubbed as duplicate content, however, if that was so, then even social bookmarking would probably be put in the same boat sometimes. To get a better understanding, I have included a definition of crossposting: As defined by Wikipedia: Crossposting is the act of posting the same message to multiple forums, mailing
[Continue Reading...]Social Bookmarking and Spam – Further Insight
As a few know (and for those who do not, now you do know), I intern for the wiki named FanHistory.com. Unfortunately in the past they were banned from Digg because of apparent spamming, and partially past wankage (wank), this is a case based on a past grudge. This was done originally as one of
[Continue Reading...]How Long Or Short Should A Blog Post Be?
Although some might say it is debatable and say there is no such thing as having a blog post so long it deters your visitors away, the fact is – it CAN be harmful to your site do produce extensive articles. The reason for this that a lot of times your first time visitors may
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