paranoia and perplexment...

This morning I awoke to find that this little space had received an awful lot of visitors overnight from lands far, far away (russia to be exact) .... and my first thought was: 'uh-oh... here comes spamalot and the invasion of the zombie computers'.... I readied myself for the onslaught (and the inevitable security hassles)

first I thought I'd follow one link to see where it lead.... and here's a snippet of what I discovered...

 yep I've been picked up by a russian booky blogger...

(do you think the text up there says 'hey check out this krazy ozzie womans - see if you can spot the nasal hair in this old profile pic I have snaffled'...)

a quick pass of the text through google translator (who needs to learn the language when you can just feed whole swathes of the stuff into google...) allowed me to see that this blogger ('happy book year') was mostly keen to just show what I get up to with books....

but it did stop me in my tracks for more than a minute..... I know this happens to everyone all the time  but it does make me feel just a little weirded out (do you feel the same way when this happens to you?)....

I don't have a drama with folk wanting to share things - especially when they are essentially being very nice about what I get up to, and they link in all the appropriate places (always appreciated) - but do you think I'm being old-fashioned to expect a courtesy request beforehand? Maybe it's just too difficult (what with language and time differences?).... maybe I'm just being paranoid about those zombie computers trying to take over my little space....


And let's not get started on the subject of copyright (that's a whole other ball of wax that I'm currently giving quite a bit of thought to.... some eagle-eyed folk may have noticed that I have registered my sams creek bookworks blog with creative commons - allowing for conditional sharing of content ... I am currently considering implications of creative commons licences for a great deal of my other webby work also - including making my HDR project freely available after it is complete.... but that's another tale for another day... )

If you are randomly dropping by and reading this (*cheerio wave*) I'm always more than happy to share - you can copy words etc as long as you attribute and link please - you don't need to ask first (although I do like to meet new and interesting peeps... and I don't bite) - if you'd like to share images of my artywork - I would appreciate a quick note beforehand  - and a link etc afterwards.... do you think that sounds reasonable?

And as for outright stealing - well that's never on is it! (I've had MANY experiences of this! mostly I can't stand folk passing of my work as their own..... YECH! get a life!)


How about everyone else? I'd love to hear your experiences/thoughts on internet content sharing.... the good, the bad, and the down right ugly ....




**ps - it's now less than a week until my solo show opens - eeeeeeeek - no wonder I've gone all paranoid!



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