Thieves and Angels

There is a balance that happened today and in some sort of twisted way I gain a lesson. I was really frustrated earlier because I discovered that someone has been stealing my content. For a moment I did panic and I felt really bad about it. I let my mind run free with the worst scenarios possible and I even thought that I should stop writing on the net when I am just starting to feel at ease with it. Now that was anxiety talking. I calmed down and started to scrutinize my blog statistics. I did so on a few occasions. I also tried to find any information relating to other people getting their content stolen by mentalhealth.thehealthsite.info. I found many people blogging/complaining and finally I found a report on the blog Stolen Content. Their tagline says: “What to do if your blog posts are stolen by a spam “scraper” site.” At least now I know more. And the more I know.. The more I grow!

On the other hand, I was plesantly suprised to receive a ping in my blog statistics leading me to healtharticles.org. I found that the website has a few of my posts up on their site. And it seems that they are being popular. The first few moments, I panicked again because i thought that I was really out of luck and that there was another site grabbing my stuff. It is not the case , and actually, I appreciate what they do because at the bottom of the post, it has a link towards the original feed at Lullaby on Daydream Road.

I think I have been handling this pretty good. I am going to be proactive instead. I have a lesson that I am learning today about blogging. Either its brought up by a good situation like having healtharticles.org grabbing my posts (and putting a link back to the original feed) or in the case of a website stealing content like mentalhealth.thehealthsite.info, it is important to include a signature to a post. I never would have thought about it. Maybe I will even make some artist card…

The Onyxx
at Lullaby on Daydream Road
http://lullabyondaydreamroad.wordpress.com/