Showing posts with label Ethics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ethics. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Bloglovin: using blogs to sell





















I misspelled the name: It is BlogLovin, the application for fashion victims below, and not the way I first wrote.
Why they didn't write FashionLovin since blogs are not their forte?


Update: April, 27
They keep publishing my posts as you can see at the first left image. Dear Lord! These people really need desperately other people's work!
Be careful with these kind of scams. There are many at the web!
Update: April, 28
I just found an article also explaining how Bloglovin steals content even from bloggers who didn't sign. This is criminal and there's no other word for that.
The first image I just took from their site showing that they keep using my posts and have the one I did four hours ago.
Isn't it amazing how they need people's work? But the lack of integrity and ethics is not a surprise and there are so many people doing
Say NO to unethical marketing
the same!
They forget that I use work of many people, attributing of course, but if they publish their images without giving the attribution for the creators they have another problem.
What is amazing about those who steal people's work is that they never achieve their goals and their projects are never taken seriously or are profitable.
Funny because once you are willing to make things the wrong way it is so much easier to succeed in our days and in history we also have some examples.
But you have to do it wisely and let's face it: stealing from bloggers is not in the mind of a great marketer or a man of broad visions.
Poor people. But it's an advice for bloggers who are not very known and might be very upset when things like that happens.
It means nothing. Just don't let them steal your traffic. Tips in another post.
Update: June, 17
Blogovin is still using my blog. The image shows my last two posts for today.

I don't think we can teach ethics or respect to anyone.
I will not even talk about integrity, rules and all these words.
Only respect. I wrote them saying I had unjoin their site and asked to have my blog removed.
They don't do it.
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Wednesday, April 6, 2011

"We stole your picture, we are making money from it; reclaim if you think it is yours"




















There are many sites of wallpapers and screensavers but I never visited because I don't like what they choose and I don't use it either. But the main reason is that they have lots of advertisements. I came across with a result from the site Desktop Wallpapers and this is what they have written at the bottom of their screen:

Wallpaper Images
All images displayed on the site are provided only for personal use as desktop wallpapers.
If you own the copyright of a wallpaper, please contact us and we will remove it.
They have numerous advertisements and there are lots of sites of wallpapers that work the same way. It seems that copyright laws will have to be changed or the internet has it's own rules. Oh! Please, if you own the copyright of one of these images click at contact us and make them remove it. Leave a comment so that I can do the same. According to their Privacy Policy I am the one who is doing wrong:
Wallpaper Images
Please do not ask for permissions to use these images in your projects, as we do not own the copyrights for them. All images displayed on the site are provided only for personal use as wallpaper on computers, cell phones and other personal electronic devices. In case of an error where you are the owner of an image and feel it is used unknowingly, please contact us so we can immediately remove it from our website. We do not intend to display any copyright protected images.
This is another website:
Copyright © 2004-2010 Free-Wallpapers-Free.com
TERMS: These free wallpapers are for personal use on computer screens only. They may not be redistributed, offered for sale, included on CDs, or used for printed material.
Can someone explain to me how they claim that they do not intent to display any copyright protected images and at the same time they say that they don't own the copyrights for them and.... I'm exhausted!
All I know is that they give other people's work for free to catch attention for their site and make money from
the numerous advertisements they have at their sites.
I am rethinking about having ads at blogs. These sites create blogs and copy images from all over the web as a way to "laundry" the images and make it more difficult to find the author. This is not only unethical. I call it crime.
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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

I had posts stolen.. and it's not only me/ My blog is being copied!


MONDAY, JULY 26, 2010


wallpaper Hella Heaven at virtual world

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This is my avatar at Second Life. Yes I am at this game as well as many strange people. Some people think that it is only a game but funny... you meet people from all over the world and can have nice relationships with amazing human beings and talk to them by voice and create a deep connection. It is also possible to share some of your problems with someone you never met and many times I talked to people who were in trouble like an American soldier that was psychologically very disturbed but had to go back to Iraq in two months. I only talked to him once and I don't know what happened to him.
As in real life you get disappointed and have to deal with many kind of annoying stuffs and even get hurt because of a friend or, seriously, a woman/man relationship.
That is strange but some people connect in such a way that they fall in love and I have even seen marriages of people that never met in real life.
It is very hard to explain how are things in the virtual world but I think it is a good experience if you have a little patience and is lucky to find nice people before you give up. There is not too many things to do at Second Life for those who are not connected to any institution and in the last years the first aim of the game is to make money for real life. Linden, the currency of the game, is bought outside the game with credit card and you have to pay for everything especially for land one of the most important sources of income and what made landowners have the function of shareholders in a real life company. It made a huge impact on the directions of the activities and the game lost in human resources what is causing discontentment to old residents and disappointment to new ones that find it hard to search for friends and don't know what to do aside listening to music and dancing in clubs just listening to music and attaching the avatar to a pose ball that makes the avatar dance.
Another problem is the new browser (viewer 2) that changed dramatically the display of the world. But it is the browser that is is available now when you subscribe or you can download Emerald that is similar to the old one and has enhanced features.
I just finished my house, my landowner has only two places and is a nice man who works as a bus driver in Las Vegas different from another one I tried before that has sixty places to run and is making a place with shops for VIPs.
The name of my house is Hella Heaven and these pictures are at the garden.
Leave me a comment if you want to visit me there. You are welcome. I can receive you when you start because I work as a mentor for the RHN's (Resident Help Network) group White Tigers that has more than three hundred mentors speaking different languages. Usually RHNs are very nice people whose sole aim is help others not only new residents but others that are facing any difficulty. Addictive? Yes it is a little bit but you have a real life after all. Let's play Barbie!
(click at the pictures to enlarge)

1 COMMENTS:



Ana said...
Hi, These pictures are mine and they are at my blog. I cannot understand that you don't put a link to the sources of your content. You also copied my post. Please, put the link Thank yoyu
I just came across with this post I did at Gil's Blog and found all the Second Life label copied and a the post about Patricia Galvão. Of course I'm not very happy seeing my pictures, it takes a lot of work to take pictures it is not only one shot. Sometimes it takes 20 pictures to find 2 goods.
And now this? I don't care if someone use my content as long as they provide the attribution. It's a honor and a homage when someone post any of your content.
I will not search anymore at this blog because whoever this person is the entire blog is coping and pasting other people's content.
How can we prevent that?
You can say I use other people work but I always get in touch with the owner, ask permission and sometimes if I find it impossible to wait, I publish and tell the author that I'll take it out if he/she wants.
Fortunately they always thanked me.
Just found another post of mine at this person's blog. Another...and another and lots of them....
All the Art Label is copied. It's being used under the insinuation of "wallpaper". Great!
Quite encouraging. Feel like stop blogging.
This must be happening a lot and there must be a way to stop it. The wallpaper industry gives for free other people's work and make money advertising whatever they want. Maybe it is about time to put ads at the blog but I simply can't do that.

Update:
I clicked at the links for the blog and was redirected for this site, a Brazilian sex match-makers site. It stopped when I clicked at the Verisign and did a report.
All my blog was copied and other blogs too.

Update April, 29:
The blog was deleted! Thank you Google! 
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