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Whether you blog for fun or profit, you may want to rethink your motives before your elected officials start doing your thinking for you. According to the Philadelphia City Paper, Philadelphia bloggers are being charged a $300 business license tax, regardless of whether or not their blogs are profitable. This means even Philadelphia’s casual blogs [...]
Continue reading about Now That Bloggers Are Being Taxed, It’s Time to Ask: Is YOUR Blog a Business?
Lately, several websites have scraped my blog posts and repurposed my content as their own. I know I’m not the only person whose blog is being plagiarized in this way. But I wonder if authors like Chris Brogan, John Moore and Tim Ferriss realize it’s happening to them, too. Say Hello to Joel Goldstein, Marketing [...]
Let’s face it: the Internet is crawling with marketers. Some of them are legitimate professionals, whose years of experience and insight can help your business find new customers. And some of them are just douchebags. Lately, I’ve come across so many people whose “marketing efforts” (if they can truly be categorized as such) are so [...]
Continue reading about Calling Bullshit on Marketing Douchebags
This week I highlighted several websites that are repurposing my content as their own, or (in a less litigious scenario) reposting my work without my permission as a way to increase their own traffic. Surprisingly, I learned via the comments and Twitter conversations about this situation that a vast majority of the people I talk [...]
Continue reading about Ideas Are Worthless: No One Owns Anything
Yesterday I blogged about my experience at the 2009 Small Press Expo. That post was commented on and retweeted by several readers, which I appreciate. It was also reposted on three websites of varying legitimacy, by other people and without my permission. That, I’m not so cool with. Repost #1 – John Lessnau’s Traffic-Building Scheme [...]
