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Saturday, October 28, 2017

Antlion in Leesburg Florida

The Antlion is a very cool looking insect. The Glenrus gratus antlion is the most attractive or handsome variety seen in Florida. Some might mistake this insect for a dragonfly or damselfly because of the long shape of its wings.

Antlion - Glenrus gratus - Leesburg, FL
Antlion - Glenrus gratus - Leesburg, FL
I observed my first Antlion on August 12, 2017 in Leesburg, Florida. This insect has the longest wings that are longer than its slender body. The markings along the edges of its wings look like dark stitches. Looking at its mandibles and shape, it looks like a stick figure.

COPYRIGHT NOTICE: Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this blog’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Julie Ann Brady and JaguarJulie Blogspot with appropriate and specific direction to the original content. Special notice is given to such websites as Blogarama, BlogCatalog, and Pinsdaddy who have taken my copyrighted work without permission to use on their websites -- stop stealing my work!!

Researching this insect on the University of Florida website, it says this is a common and conspicuous insect in Florida. That's interesting as I've lived in Florida for over 25 years and never observed an Antlion until just recently!
Wheeler (1930) called them "demons of the dust", whereas children in the southern United States coined the term "doodlebugs" to describe their antics.
I have observed some interesting markings in the sand along my side yard that looked like "doodles" and probably were made by the Antlion. Learning more about this insect, the University of Florida reports that they are economically beneficial as "adults commonly feed on caterpillars and aphids, whereas the larvae feed on surface dwellers such as ants and other insect larvae."

I have also observed a few of the sand traps of the Antlion along the sand in my side yard. Personally, I am OK with these insects feeding on the ants as I have plenty of them here in Leesburg, Florida!! Want to know more about this curious winged creature? Check on the Wikipedia reference on the Antlion which tells you probably everything you want or need to know!

Sunday, October 01, 2017

Blogarama Content Scraper

This is my second blog post today discussing a blog directory content scraper or content thief. Earlier today, I published a blog post on another blog directory content scraper, BlogCatalog. This herein, "copyrighted" blog post puts the notorious spotlight on Blogarama for their scraping of my copyrighted content including images.

I've already said this ... that it is more than concerning how some websites will just plain STEAL your copyrighted content and copyrighted images and make you think it is OK. Calling yourself a blog catalog or blog directory does not make it OK to take without the author's permission their entire blog post with images to post on their website.

Normally, a reputable blog catalog or directory website will ask you if you would like to have your blog included first. Then, after you have granted permission to feature your blog, the blog catalog or directory will share SNIPPETS or an acceptable summary of your copyrighted blogs posts with a link to the ORIGINAL blog post where you can read more and see the original. They will not steal your entire blog post along with all the images to put on their site! That is essentially content theft.

It appears Blogarama is taking my entire blog posts and copyrighted images as soon as I publish them. This illegal practice needs to cease and desist – they do not have my permission to steal my content so blatantly! A reputable website will not steal your work and create duplicate content [that is not theirs] to submit to Google and other search engines to index as theirs.

#1 - This DMCA Take Down Notice concerns my Topicability blog. A description of the copyrighted work: My copyrighted images and entire Google blog posts from Topicability:
http://topicability.blogspot.com
http://topicability.blogspot.com/2014/10/hungarian-spaetzle-case-study.html
http://topicability.blogspot.com/2014/09/squidoo-and-hubpages-big-news.html
http://topicability.blogspot.com/2010/07/snapshot-of-squidoo-splash-page.html
http://topicability.blogspot.com/2012/02/i-must-surely-be-in-heaven.html
http://topicability.blogspot.com/2010/07/holy-purple-cow-stars-take-2.html
http://topicability.blogspot.com/2010/07/time-out-for-smile-ad-from-google.html
http://topicability.blogspot.com/2010/07/top-100-how-to-squidoo-tips.html
http://topicability.blogspot.com/2010/07/well-what-about-you-and-about-me.html
http://topicability.blogspot.com/2010/06/what-is-cooking-in-food-topic.html
http://topicability.blogspot.com/2010/06/what-is-topicable-in-shopping.html

Blogarama Content Scraper of Topicability Copyrighted Content
Blogarama Content Scraper of Topicability Copyrighted Content
#1 - The unauthorized and infringing images and blog post can be found at:
https://www.blogarama.com/careers-and-industries-blogs/146096-topicability-blog/
https://www.blogarama.com/careers-industries-blogs/146096-topicability-blog/583843-hungarian-spaetzle-case-study
http://www.blogarama.com/careers-industries-blogs/146096-topicability-blog/583844-squidoo-hubpages-big-news
http://www.blogarama.com/careers-industries-blogs/146096-topicability-blog/583845-snapshot-squidoo-splash-page
http://www.blogarama.com/careers-industries-blogs/146096-topicability-blog/583846-must-surely-heaven
http://www.blogarama.com/careers-and-industries-blogs/146096-topicability-blog/192797-holy-purple-cow-stars-take
http://www.blogarama.com/careers-industries-blogs/146096-topicability-blog/1216447-time-for-smile-from-google
http://www.blogarama.com/careers-and-industries-blogs/146096-topicability-blog/192796-top-100-squidoo-tips
http://www.blogarama.com/careers-industries-blogs/146096-topicability-blog/1216449-well-what-about-you
http://www.blogarama.com/careers-industries-blogs/146096-topicability-blog/1216451-what-cooking-food-topic
http://www.blogarama.com/careers-industries-blogs/146096-topicability-blog/1216456-what-topicable-shopping

#2 - This DMCA Take Down Notice concerns my JaguarJulie Ann Brady blog. A description of the copyrighted work: My copyrighted images and entire Google blog posts from JaguarJulie Ann Brady:
https://jaguarjulie.blogspot.com/
https://jaguarjulie.blogspot.com/2017/09/cicada-of-leesburg-florida.html
https://jaguarjulie.blogspot.com/2017/09/dmca-take-down-notices-on-pinsdaddy.html
https://jaguarjulie.blogspot.com/2017/09/florida-leatherleaf-slug.html
https://jaguarjulie.blogspot.com/2017/09/pinsdaddy-copyright-infringement.html
https://jaguarjulie.blogspot.com/2017/09/black-rat-snake.html
https://jaguarjulie.blogspot.com/2017/09/awful-tasting-coffee-review.html
https://jaguarjulie.blogspot.com/2017/09/juvenile-southern-black-racer-snake.html
https://jaguarjulie.blogspot.com/2017/08/hard-apple-cider-review.html
https://jaguarjulie.blogspot.com/2017/08/eastern-tiger-swallowtail-butterfly.html
https://jaguarjulie.blogspot.com/2017/08/anise-swallowtail-butterfly.html


Blogarama Content Scraper of JaguarJulie Ann Brady Copyrighted Content
Blogarama Content Scraper of JaguarJulie Ann Brady Copyrighted Content
#2 - The unauthorized and infringing images and blog post can be found at:
https://www.blogarama.com/observations-blogs/146093-jaguar-julie-blog/
http://www.blogarama.com/observations-blogs/146093-jaguar-julie-blog/22034640-cicada-leesburg-florida
http://www.blogarama.com/observations-blogs/146093-jaguar-julie-blog/22023764-dmca-take-down-notices-pinsdaddy
http://www.blogarama.com/observations-blogs/146093-jaguar-julie-blog/21960527-florida-leatherleaf-slug
http://www.blogarama.com/observations-blogs/146093-jaguar-julie-blog/21957057-pinsdaddy-copyright-infringement
http://www.blogarama.com/observations-blogs/146093-jaguar-julie-blog/21742261-black-rat-snake
http://www.blogarama.com/observations-blogs/146093-jaguar-julie-blog/21725241-awful-tasting-coffee-review
http://www.blogarama.com/observations-blogs/146093-jaguar-julie-blog/21732575-juvenile-southern-black-racer-snake
http://www.blogarama.com/observations-blogs/146093-jaguar-julie-blog/21595007-hard-apple-cider-review
http://www.blogarama.com/observations-blogs/146093-jaguar-julie-blog/21580392-eastern-tiger-swallowtail-butterfly
http://www.blogarama.com/observations-blogs/146093-jaguar-julie-blog/21584441-anise-swallowtail-butterfly

I had been very busy dealing with all the content thieves on Amazon that were stealing hundreds of my copyrighted designs from my three Zazzle stores to sell as theirs on Amazon. It was well over a year of continuous reporting and finding the same designs popping up again and again with new sellers there who appeared to be mostly from China.

So, I finally seemed to catch up with the thievery on Amazon to next find a site named Pinsdaddy who has stolen hundreds of my copyrighted images to use on their website. But, worse that just using my copyrighted images, they are suggesting these images are stock images that are free to download and use by the reader. Good Grief!! Houston, we have a problem.

I'm still dealing with DMCA Take Down Notices against Pinsdaddy and have now begun to focus on the blog directories, filing first a DMCA Take Down Notice against BlogCatalog. And, today, filing against a blog directory site of Blogarama. I would say Blogarama seems to be much more concerning as they are literally stealing my content as I publish it!!!

As I've said previously, I would think Google can determine that this type of content thievery is happening. What the heck? It does involve Google blogs after all. Particularly concerning is to find my copyrighted image taken from my Google blog appearing in Google image searches as attributable to the scraper blog directories! Hey -- wrong! Google needs to penalize these content thieves now and bar them from future privileges.

UPDATE: DMCA Take Down Notices

#1 - DMCA Take Down Notice to Host : Bluehost.com
Compliance Department legal@bluehost.com
Hello,
Thank you for contacting Bluehost.
We are in receipt of your email regarding blogarama.com. This website is hosted elsewhere and we have no control over the website or its content. Any issues regarding the content of the website will need to be addressed either directly to the owner of the site or to the hosting provider (who should be in a position to assist you with your concerns).
Currently, it appears that the hosting provider for this website is: Linode, LLC
#2 - DMCA Take Down Notice to Host : Linode.com
Linode Abuse
Hi,
Thanks for bringing this to our attention. The domain in question is hosted behind CloudFlare’s reverse proxy service:
$ dig +short blogarama.com
104.28.29.28
104.28.28.28
$ whois 104.28.28.28 | grep -i ‘orgname'
OrgName: Cloudflare, Inc.
$ whois 104.28.29.28 | grep -i ‘orgname'
OrgName: Cloudflare, Inc.
As such, we cannot currently identify if this material is being hosted on our platform. To properly address this complaint, we ask that you submit your report to CloudFlare directly and use the 'notify ISP' option. This will direct CloudFlare to forward your complaint along with the proper identifying information for us to address this. Let us know if you have any questions.
#3 - DMCA Take Down Notice to Host : Cloudflare.com
Thank you for reporting a suspected violation of our Terms of Service.
Please be assured that we document and investigate every report, and will take appropriate enforcement action. This may be the only response you receive regarding your report. Due to the large volume of reports we receive, it is not possible for us to send a personal response to every report. 
When reporting security incidents, please include source and destination addresses with ports in plain text format and accurate time stamps.
Cloudflare offers network service solutions including a reverse proxy, pass-through security service and a content distribution network (CDN). Cloudflare is not a hosting provider, and we do not have access to our customer's content.
Our Terms of Service is located here: https://www.cloudflare.com/terms
Thank you for using Cloudflare.

BlogCatalog Content Scraper

It is more than concerning how some websites will just plain STEAL your copyrighted content and copyrighted images and make you think it is OK ... because they say they are a Blog Catalog aka BlogCatalog! A reputable blog catalog or directory website will ask you if you would like to have your blog included first. Secondly, they will share SNIPPETS or an acceptable summary of your copyrighted blogs posts with a link to the ORIGINAL blog post where you can read more and see the original. They will not steal your entire blog post along with all the images to put on their site! That is essentially content theft.

BlogCatalog Content Scraper of JaguarJulie Ann Brady Copyrighted Content
BlogCatalog Content Scraper of JaguarJulie Ann Brady Copyrighted Content
A reputable website will not steal your work and create duplicate content [that is not theirs] to submit to Google and other search engines to index as theirs.

I just filed my DMCA Take Down Notice on BlogCatalog and expect to be given the runaround by the hosting company and website to pass the buck and NOT want to comply with my legal request!

A description of my copyrighted work: My copyrighted images and Google blogs of JaguarJulie Ann Brady and Topicability post:
http://jaguarjulie.blogspot.com/2016/12/tersa-sphinx-moth.html
http://topicability.blogspot.com/2014/10/hungarian-spaetzle-case-study.html
http://topicability.blogspot.com/2010/06/tops-in-seo-and-affiliate-marketing.html
http://topicability.blogspot.com/2010/06/would-you-prefer-green-bean-recipe.html
http://jaguarjulie.blogspot.com/2016/06/amazon-not-honoring-copyright.html
http://topicability.blogspot.com/2010/06/what-is-topicable-in-shopping.html
http://topicability.blogspot.com/2010/07/holy-purple-cow-stars-take-2.html
http://topicability.blogspot.com/2010/07/top-100-how-to-squidoo-tips.html
http://jaguarjulie.blogspot.com/2016/06/amazon-design-theft-of-zazzlers-art-2.html
http://jaguarjulie.blogspot.com/2016/11/polka-dot-wasp-moth.html
http://topicability.blogspot.com/2010/06/do-it-yourself-this-summer.html
http://topicability.blogspot.com/2010/06/it-is-all-local-folks-oh-my.html
http://topicability.blogspot.com/2010/06/what-pops-with-pop-culture-and-celebs.html
http://topicability.blogspot.com/2010/06/hey-people-its-about-people-today.html

BlogCatalog Content Scraper of JaguarJulie Ann Brady Copyrighted Content
BlogCatalog Content Scraper of JaguarJulie Ann Brady Copyrighted Content
The unauthorized and infringing images and blog post can be found at:
https://www.blogcatalog.com/author/jaguarjulie/
https://www.blogcatalog.com/tersa-sphinx-moth/
https://www.blogcatalog.com/hungarian-spaetzle-case-study/
https://www.blogcatalog.com/tops-in-seo-and-affiliate-marketing/
https://www.blogcatalog.com/would-you-prefer-green-bean-recipe/
https://www.blogcatalog.com/amazon-not-honoring-copyright-infringement-complaints/
https://www.blogcatalog.com/what-is-topicable-in-shopping/
https://www.blogcatalog.com/holy-purple-cow-stars-take-2/
https://www.blogcatalog.com/top-100-how-to-squidoo-tips/
https://www.blogcatalog.com/amazon-design-theft-of-zazzlers-art-2/
https://www.blogcatalog.com/polka-dot-wasp-moth/
https://www.blogcatalog.com/do-it-yourself-this-summer/
https://www.blogcatalog.com/it-is-all-local-folks-oh-my/
https://www.blogcatalog.com/what-pops-with-pop-culture-and-celebs/
https://www.blogcatalog.com/hey-people-its-about-people-today/


This is not the only blog directory type of website that has scraped or stolen my copyrighted content. I'm also just sending out a DMCA Take Down Notice against Blogarama who seems to be STEALING my copyrighted work just as soon as I publish it!!!

I've sent my DMCA Take Down Notice against BlogCatalog to Cloudflare who quickly responded with additional information. Cloudflare advised that BlogCatalog's Hosting Provider is AMAZON-AES - Amazon.com, Inc., US with an Abuse Contact: abuse@amazonaws.com. It's been a few years since I communicated with Amazon AWS regarding a content scraper who kept moving their hosting to give me the runaround ... I hope I am not given the runaround again! I'm getting a bit old to deal with this type of behavior.

I would think Google can tell that this content thievery is happening ... especially when it involves one of their Google blogs! I have seen my newer blog posts copyrighted images appearing in Google searches as attributable to the scraper blog directories! That is really concerning that the original image is not appearing above the scraper blog directories. Just plain wrong! Google needs to penalize these content thieves.