On Copying my Blogs..

I have started my blog since May 2005. I began blogging during my early days here in the USA. There were just too many things I wanted to say but nobody to talk to that I always find myself turning to blogging.

I do admit that putting down  my thoughts into something amusing, informative and vivid is not always an  easy thing considering that I am not a native speaker of the English language. I always spend time rewriting and rewriting my posts especially the ones that I feel should be given more thought, because it is also my responsibility that I present my ideas as factual as possible. That is  the reason why I guess, I can never write something that I have no knowledge or experience of. That is the reason why I titled my blog, Straight from the Heart, because I write everything straight, no lies or pretensions, from the bottom of my heart.  I do not write just to write, I  put myself into it, with the objective that this post will somehow bring a smile to somebody's face, that it will bring information,and  that my friends will know what my thoughts are, or what is happening to me even if we're miles apart.

So it hurts me that some people grab some of my posts from my sites without nary a thought that they are infringing with my rights. They are what I call "Blog-Photocopiers" , "Blog-grabbers".  Do they think that these posts were written with just a wave of the  hand?  I wish I had a magic wand to be able to do that but I don't. I can't blame them though if they  find some of my posts amusing and they want to  share it with the world. The thing is , I wish they will give some respect to the author, and provide a link back to me.  So I am posting my  Copyright Policy , for all the blogs that I have created and  that is  "you are not allowed to copy whole post contents but only  excerpts of  about 50-100  words and the rest of the article  should be linked back to my page that you have copied.  You should also  provide my site's URL as source  as well. "

So there, should you wish to share my work through your own blogs:

1. you may only provide excerpts.
2. you have to link back to my site/ page that you have copied.
3. you have to put my site's page address as source .

I still have got  a lot to say but they are words better left unsaid.