This year I went through all of my blog posts and pulled a lot of photos due to bloggers being sued by the owners of the pictures. Yes, I admit I have also left a lot of pics, and have since used Creative Commons and link back to the origins, but I’ve also used many […]
HOW TO: Set up your Blogger blog by adding labels, pictures, gadgets and so much more!
I first started this blog in 2009 to accompany my website, and used a very basic template and colour scheme. Not a lot of gadgets down the side, all very plain and simple. But, thankfully, Blogger has added new templates, colour schemes, backgrounds and all sorts of doohickies to help you out. And […]
HOW TO: Keep your Picasa albums empty and your Blogger blog full.
Recently I spoke about copyrighted pics and bloggers getting into trouble here. The easiest way is to make your own pics and post them, the second easiest it to go through copyright free websites like Creative Commons. Here are some lessons I have learned with my Picasa albums and Blogger posts. If you have […]
LEGAL ISSUES: Copyright and your blog pictures. Do you have the right to use them?
There won’t be any posts this week except for this one as I’ll be doing some maintenance on the blog. It seems there’s been some controversy over copyrighted pictures that bloggers use so I’ll be replacing all of the pics in my blog posts with either my own copyrighted ones, or pics from copyright free […]
HOW TO: Get your jewellery designs into a beading magazine
Apparently it’s not that hard. All you have to do is check out all of the beading mags and if they want you to email them some pics, then do it! Back in January I picked up the latest copy of Australian Beading and checked out the reader’s gallery. You could send in pics […]
Paper Giants: The birth of Cleo. When were cover models replaced with boring old celebrities?
Over the last two nights ABC have shown the tv series Paper Giants:the birth of Cleo. Cleo was our answer to Cosmo. Now from the show I gather that Frank Packer and his company PBL, owner and publisher of Cleo, was going to publish an Australian version of Cosmopolitan as copied from America. It didn’t […]
