97 ‘generations’
of
The Versatile Blogger
Award
- Purplume’s Blog – May 30, 2010
- Housewife Blues and Chihuahua Stories – June 23, 2010
- Addicted To Romance – June 8, 2010
- Book Mark Your Thoughts – June 8, 2010
- Badass Bookie – June 11, 2010
- Thoghts Enterred in Phrase – June 14, 2010
- The Daily Harrell – June 15, 2010
- Renae Mercado – June 16, 2010
- Amparo Ortiz – June 17, 2010
- YA Literature Lover – June 19, 2010
- T.K. Richardson – June 23, 2010
- Words from the Woods – June 29, 2010
- Patricia Stotley – July 2, 2010
- “Dishin’ It Out” – July 7, 2010
- Kate Masters – July 12, 2010
- Margaret West – July 12, 2010
- Walker’s Muse (now “Mass Musings”) – July 12, 2010
- Ashley’s Bookshelf – July 17, 2010
- Books That Bite – July 22, 2010
- Missy’s Reads and Reviews – June 27, 2010
- About Books Blog – July 27, 2010 (Passed it on to others in their comments before this post was published)
- WV Stitcher – July 3, 2010
- Copper Penny Designs – August 3, 2011
- StudioJuls – August 5, 2010
- EB Bead and Metal Works – August 6, 2010
- Copper Diem – August 7, 2010
- TyneBoden Necklaces – August 7, 2010
- Life of a Twingle Gal – August 8, 2010
- The Knit Wit – August 8, 2010
- And then there were 4 – August 12, 2010 (Passed it on to others in their comments before this post was published)
- Crazy About My BayBah – August 20, 2010
- Two Monkeys and a Washtub – September 11, 2010
- Mommy Only Has 2 Hands – September 15, 2010
- Victoria’s Voice – September 15, 2010
- Kim {Mama} – September 17, 2010 (Passed it on to others in their comments before this post was published)
- A Grace – full Life – September 16, 2010
- Sunshine Praises – September 29, 2010
- Mom’s Mustard Seeds – September 29, 2010
- A Slice of Smith Life – September 30, 2010
- My Heart’s Desire: Health In Him – October 11, 2010
- Mommy Time Out – October 13, 2010
- The Unexpected Education – April 6, 2011
- Karima’s Blogs – April 7, 2011
- The Steady hand – April 7, 2011
- Indiana Inker – May 20, 2011
- Kortney’s Krazy Life – May 30, 2011
- The Gentle Flower – June 2, 2011
- Lindy Legends and Other Such Nonsense – June, 3, 2011
- Lala Musings – June 4, 2011
- Motherhood: {truth} – June 5, 2011
- Always Just a Mom – June ?, 2011 (open to invited readers only)
- Far From Camelot – June 7, 2011
- insignificant at best – June 8, 2011
- Depression Cookies – August 23, 2011
- Punk Rock Psychic – August 26, 2011
- Frugal Science – August 26, 2011
- the artful blogger – August 31, 2011
- psychodynamom – September 16
- scatteringmoments – September 17
- Aurora Morealist – September 17, 2011
- Revelling In the Overflowing Grace of God – September 2o, 2011
- Resting in His Grace – (passed on to others in comments; blogged January 19, 2012)
- A Father’s Love – September 21, 2011
- Jesus Carries Me – September 21, 2011
- Still Growing – October 18, 2011
- wordtabulous – October 24, 2011
- Kana’s Chronicles – October 25, 2011
- sparklebumpsthebookwhore – October 25, 2011
- sandylikeabeach – October 25, 2011
- traveldestinationbucketlist – October 25, 2011
- steve allen photography – October 27, 2011
- David Heilman – October 29, 2011
- photographyofnia – October 30, 2011
- Cats & Co – November 18, 2011
- Gabrielle Angel and Autumn Sunshine – November 18, 2011
- poeticjourney251 – November 18
- PryncesSyndrome – November 29, 2011
- LScott Poetry – December 1, 2011
- 365daysofcourage – January 3, 2012
- Believe Anyway – January 17, 2012
- Celeste’s Stories & Writing Adventure – January 30, 2012
- kenzie.kay – January 31, 2012
- Shannon M. Howell – February 2, 2012
- Pete Denton – Writer – March 10, 2012
- Vanessa Chapman – March 13, 2012
- They call me Betty – March 16, 2012
- Raising a Realist – March 17, 2012
- iGameMom – March 19, 2012
- Peace, Love & Fabulous Things – March 21, 2012
- The Shy Lion – March 27, 2012
- tea and craft – April 1, 2012
- My Grandmotherly Ways – April 3, 2012
- Tecrin Tries – April 5, 2012
- buttons and beeswax – April 17, 2012
- Will Knit for Food – April 27, 2012
- Celebrate Life! – April 21, 2012
- Exit78
Opal at Celebrate Life has given me “The Versatile Blogger” award, which I greatly appreciate. We’ve been reading each other’s blogs since at least 2008.
Many of these blog awards have a list of requirements that go with them – which really makes them into a sort of ‘award meme’ – and this award has its own set of requirements, which I’ll be treating a tad differently.
One of the requirements is to nominate 15 bloggers that you follow regularly or have recently discovered – a little bit of linky love and sharing with others some blogs that you like.
What I started with, instead, was to trace the lineage of the Versatile Blogger award as it came to me. I went back 97 ‘generations’ of the award before I came to a blog that had died. Some of the blogs had been awarded multiple times, but I just followed one path back, making it all the way back to May 30, 2010. I’ve included links to all of the ‘generations’ of the award before me on the right.
The Versatile Blog award has been around a long while in internet time. The earliest mention I could find of it was from October 2007. There is a Versatile Blogger Award site, but its earliest post is from only a few months ago.
Another of the requirements is to tell the person who nominated you 7 things about yourself:
- I don’t do memes or awards. I’m making a bit of an exception on this one, because it’s fun. Sometime meme and award requirements are just too much of something I’m not interested. I also don’t like to make others feel like they are obligated to do something, which is why I won’t be passing this on to anyone else.
- Though I was born in the North, I’ve been a legal resident of the South for three quarters of my life. However, I was a legal resident of Texas for tax purposes when I was in the Navy and we lived in California, Connecticut, and Idaho.
- I’ve spent about 15 1/2 months under water – 6 deterrent patrols on a nuclear submarine.
- I didn’t need to wear green on St. Patrick’s Day – my eyes are green, as are my dad’s, bother brothers, and two of my sisters. The other sister has blue eyes.
- Even though I have a bachelors degree, I’ve never been on the campus of the college I got it from. The same is true for our son-in-law. We got our degrees from the same University and they weren’t mail order or online course. We did our coursework in actual classes, but they were held on military bases.
- I am a member of The Order of the Blue Nose (line crossing ceremony for the arctic circle).
- I rode a bus unaccompanied to Houston from Nebraska when I was 13 to spend the summer with my mom and step-dad – I lived with my grandparents. That summer of ‘65, we lived in a very depressed area (slum?) very close to downtown. I rode a Greyhound bus unaccompanied back to Nebraska at the end of the summer.
Sipapu Natural Bridge Trail, Natural Bridges National Monument, Utah, September 30, 2011
Natural Bridges National Monument overflow camping on nearby BLM land
Farmers’ Market, Great Falls Montana, September 1, 2007
Mt. Rushmore, South Dakota, August 22, 2007
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Pinterest–I tried it and …
March 21, 2012
Update 3/24/2012 — I’m reconsidering my concern over Pinterest. Pinterest has come out with revised terms and is working on making private pinboards available.
I’ve developed a Pinterest Policy page. Most pages here will be open for pinning, though the front page, archives, and selected pages will have it blocked.
A Pinterest pinboard, to me, is an online, published compilation of images that someone has collected. It’s sort of like a published scrapbook. If ya publish it, ya need to have the rights to publish the individual items in the scrapbook (compilation).
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I don’t like it.It’s a great concept – organize and share all the beautiful things you find on the web.
There’s just two big sticky problems.
Copyright
The first is called copyright infringement.
Pinterest is primarily based around collecting pictures. In collecting images and “pinning” them on their pinboards, the Pinterest user is publishing copies of other peoples’ work.
Copyright of a photograph or drawing starts as soon as an image is fixed in some sort of permanent form. For electronic images, that occurs as soon as an image is saved as a file.
Making copies of this file, including publishing it somewhere other than where it is intended, violates the exclusive right of the creator of the image to make and/or approve copies. The right to copy is why it’s called copyright. If you didn’t create it and didn’t get permission, then you don’t have a right to copy, you don’t have a right to pin.
Terms of Use
The other big problem is the Pinterest terms of use.
Under the terms of use, if you use Pinterest, then you “represent and warrant that: (i) you either are the sole and exclusive owner of all Member Content that you make available through the Site, Application and Services or you have all rights, licenses, consents and releases that are necessary to grant to Cold Brew Labs the rights in such Member Content.”
The terms of use also says none of your Pinterest activities “will infringe, misappropriate or violate a third party’s patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret, moral rights or other proprietary or intellectual property rights, or rights of publicity or privacy, or result in the violation of any applicable law or regulation.”
In other words, by the terms of use that everyone agrees to before they can use Pinterest, every user is saying they have the right or permission to use every single thing that they are putting on their pinboard.
Somehow I rather doubt that many users really understand or that they even actually read the terms of use, let alone this part.
Wikipedia has an interesting statement concerning Pinterest and the issue of copyright.
While it’s an interesting concept, given the present state of the internet and current copyright laws and treaties, the design of Pinterest by its very nature fosters unintended abuse of the intellectual property rights of others.
I’ve spent too much time researching and learning about copyright. I ‘m going to have to take a pass on Pinterest.
Copy Right, Copy Sense
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