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| Posted: 27 Oct 2011 05:54 PM PDT I have had many clients ask me what a blog is. Blogs started in the late 1990s, and they were initially known as “web logs”. Blogs were a form of an online diary that anyone could read. Shortly thereafter, tools came out for anyone to keep a blog. Many businesses use blogs to promote new products and services for their customers to read. Since blogs are free to maintain, they are a great way businesses to expand their customer base. Most consumers look for businesses online, than using a phone book. You can host your blog on websites like Blogger and WordPress. You have the option to link your website to your blog to increase traffic to your site. Why Should I Start A Blog? People who are looking to expand their business should think about starting a blog. They are free to maintain, and every blog article you post is considered "fresh content", which wraps content around one or more keywords, which boosts your ranking in Google. Business owners can use blogging services that have blog packages for a fee. The benefits of using a blog for your business can result in success. Same-Day Writing Services have several blog packages specifically for businesses! Choose from Basic, Standard, or High Traffic blog packages that will suit your website and budget expectation. Visit www.samedaywriting.com for more information or to request a quote! |
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| The Problem with SOPA (And How to Stop It) Posted: 11 Jan 2012 03:00 AM PST
Maybe you’ve had a lot going on and you’ve hoped it would just go away. Maybe you figure it can’t be all that bad. Maybe you believe that the internet has always found a way around censorship and always will. But while the internet as a whole may be tough enough to survive, you may find yourself crushed in the gears as it all gets worked out. And we don’t want that. So while we usually avoid politics on Copyblogger, we believe in taking action to protect yourself and your business. Let’s do a quick review of the key problems with SOPA, with some quick and easy ways you can help the fight to prevent it from becoming law. What’s SOPA?SOPA is the Stop Online Piracy Act, written with the intent of more vigorously protecting copyright around the web. The entertainment industry wants to come down harder on file sharing and the theft of copyrighted material, so it lobbied for a draconian law to add to the many anti-piracy laws that are already on the books. SOPA would be a sweet deal for giant music and entertainment companies. That’s why the law got written in the first place. But it’s not a good deal for countless small businesses in the U.S., including yours. Problem 1: Your site can be shut down whether or not you’ve done anything wrongHave a commenter who links to a site that uses a copyrighted image inappropriately? SOPA says that makes you liable to the full extent of its broad enforcement powers. Those include shutting off your domain name to censor your site, or cutting off your PayPal account. A site can be shut down for a single infringing link — even if it’s a link you didn’t post. (As you can imagine, this makes life pretty much impossible for FaceBook, Twitter, or YouTube, which is why they’re fighting SOPA.) The only way you can defend yourself is after your site has already been taken down. And if it turns out you haven’t infringed anyone’s copyright in the first place … oh well. Problem 2: SOPA is toothless for real piratesAllegedly infringing sites are blocked by domain name, not IP address. Real pirates have no problem using IP addresses to continue to download copyrighted content illegally. Your customers, however, won’t know how to find you by IP address alone. If your domain name is blocked, they won’t be able to get to you any more. They can’t read your blog, they can’t order your products … you don’t exist. Problem 3: You are not a bad guy, but you’re the one who will get punishedThere’s actually a provison that says that an ordinary user can go to jail for five years for posting any copyrighted work. Yes, that’s a penalty of five years in prison for putting an iPhone video on your blog of you singing your inimitable version of “Thriller.” It seems insane (and it is), but the entertainment industry has a history of going after ordinary people, including kids, for copyright infringement — and pushing for draconian maximum penalties. Problem 4: SOPA is bad for the economy, at exactly the wrong timeThe worldwide economy is in fairly horrible shape, and it’s entrepeneurial, nimble small businesses (like yours) that are going to get us out of it. Small, privately held companies are where the new jobs are coming from. They’re where game-changing innovation is coming from. And they’re where the smart jobs are coming from … the kinds of jobs that can’t readily be outsourced and don’t lend themselves to automation. As anyone who’s ever worked in (or founded) a small company knows, the little guys tend to live on the edge. They don’t necessarily have six months of payroll in the bank. They don’t keep an attorney on retainer to fight a fraudulent accusation. The last thing in the world we need right now is a law that puts small businesses, especially small web-based businesses, in danger. Particularly when those businesses haven’t done anything wrong. Problem 5: It’s not just small business that takes the hitIt’s not just small businesses that will be affected — the big technology-based companies (you know, the kind that create tens of thousands of excellent jobs) are intensely worried about SOPA. They’re afraid that they can’t build the next chapter of the web (which will almost certainly continue to be based around sharing and social activity) if they’re hamstrung by a clumsy, over-broad law. That’s why Google, Wikipedia, Amazon, and other game-changing tech companies have threatened to shut down for an internet blackout day to raise awareness of the dangers of SOPA. Problem 6: It’s bad for internet security and stabilityBecause SOPA fiddles around with how domain names and registrations are handled, it may open up security loopholes in the global DNS. That’s right — SOPA could make life easier on the dirtballs who hack websites. Know anyone whose site has been hacked this year? Ask them if they want to open up security and stability holes in DNS. It’s a very bad idea. Problem 7: It backs the wrong horseThe entertainment business adds lots of dollars to our economy. But it doesn’t add nearly as many jobs and dollars as the technology industry does. The internet is our economic future. It’s the essential infrastructure of modern business, from yoga studios and one-person service businesses to giants like Amazon, Facebook, and Google. Internet-based tech — whether that’s a blog that supports your coaching business or the next blockbuster product from Apple — is what will bring us through the economic crisis and into the next period of prosperity. Making it (slightly) harder for people to illegally download Happy Feet 2 is pretty trivial by comparison. The benefits are puny compared with the costs. Maybe it will just be okNow I don’t actually believe that the internet is going to curl up and die because of SOPA. As John Gilmore once said,
But just because the entire internet probably won’t fail doesn’t mean you as an individual might not face:
These things won’t happen to every site. But they will happen to some. I’m not crazy about people who steal content eitherJust like a big entertainment company, Copyblogger Media has had our share of copyrighted material show up on pirating sites. It’s annoying. But we’ve found that:
If a new media company with fewer than 20 employees can come up with creative ways to get customers to pay a fair price for our products, why can’t the entertainment industry? What you should do nextI totally get that you may have neither the time nor the inclination to do a lot of political activism around this. Fortunately, there are some very quick and easy things you can do that will help Congress understand that this is a job-killing, unfair law. First, visit Stop American Censorship. Scroll down for lots of options at various commitment levels, whether you’re a political junkie or someone who can’t stand politics. There are options there if you’re not a U.S. Citizen (and yes, SOPA affects you even if you’re not in the U.S. — in fact, it’s explicitly directed against sites in other countries). The Senate votes in two weeks, and at least 41 more senators need to get a clue before that happens. You can help. Click the link now and take at least one of the actions they recommend: If you want to learn moreHere are some of the resources I used to research this post — they’re all interesting and will give you more details about why SOPA is a terrible idea for all internet users, especially those of us who use the web for our businesses. SOPA: Hollywood Finally Gets a Chance to Break the Internet An Alternative to SOPA Help Stop SOPA/PIPA Tech Giants Consider Internet Blackout and Support OPEN Act Hitler Reacts to SOPA Before you go off about the rest of your day’s business, please visit Stop American Censorship. It takes just a few minutes to send an email or take another action to let Congress know you want this bad law stopped before it can harm our businesses and our economy. About the Author: Sonia Simone is CMO and a co-founder of Copyblogger Media. TweetShare |
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