Giveaways are commonplace in the blogosphere. From time to time, I have hosted giveaways for wonderful small goodies myself. Somewhere on the periphery of my former lawyer brain, I was aware that competitions, contests and lotteries are regulated but I blithely thought that my modest giveaways were exempt and the rules only applied to big […]
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New Blog Reading
As part of preparing for the retirement of Google Reader, I took the opportunity to review my subscriptions. There were a lot of blogs on my list that are no longer active. I deleted other blogs as they no longer hold my interest. Finally, there were blogs that are new to me and I wanted […]
Blog Reading After the Demise of Google Reader
The Benefits of RSS Readers When I first started hanging out in the blogosphere, it soon became apparent that manually checking blogs to see if there was anything new was not a very efficient approach. I learned about RSS feeds and signed up for an aggregation/reader service. In simple terms, I created a list of […]
How to Add a Pinterest Slideshow in WordPress & Blogger
Kate Themel, regional representative for SAQA Connecticut, recently shared how to create a slideshow of the 2013 SAQA Benefit Auction quilts using the slideshow widget in Blogger linked to SAQA’s Pinterest board of auction quilts. After some online research and some poking around, I worked out how display recent Pinterest pins from my own boards in […]
Copyright Infringement & Letters of Demand Resources
Two or three months ago, I discovered that an Australian enterprise was using an image of one of my distinctive improvisational quilts as the background for its promotional materials in a wide range of online and print media. I will not go into specific details but I am pleased to say that direct telephone contact, […]
Gone fishin’
Not really, but I have headed off to Tasmania for some R&R in the great outdoors. Internet access is likely to be patchy so I may be offline for a few days. In the meantime, you might like to head over to Crescendoh for a fabulous giveaway of TWELVE ! copies of the Twelve by […]
