Blue_cat

I am really not updating this enough to consider this a primary blog.

HOWEVER I am putting each & every one of your rss-feeds onto my RSS reader ~ I realise this means you public posts only but I have become so very bad at checking Vox that I miss 95% of those :(

I won't delete this, and may wander back over, but seriously I have a Livejournal, a dreamwidth, 2 wordpress (for different aliases), Twitter, Plurk, Chi.mp, Facebook, snapfoo and am just wishing there was an easy platform for cross posting between them all :P

Thanks, I am not going toooo far, and given I am still going to read your public posts, will still comment on & off.

Let me know if I should add another blog of yours too :)

All the bes,

Blue_Cat

OK, this may be an odd place to put info about a Twitter Campaign but... I know there are artists out there and I don't know any info other than that I am provided with.

Jon Engle, an illustrator, is being sued by StockArt for copyright infringement on work he claims is his own and they claim he stole from artists on their site.

His blog post is here: JonEngle.com/accused

Not only has he been sent a bill for 'illegal' use of (his own) images but they are contacting clients of his to say he is under investigation for copyright infringement which has led him to be banned from some other work sites and caused quite a bit of problems for him with clients!

You may have seen some of his work without knowing it as he has worked on some TV programmes etc.

OK, I confess to knowing only 1 side of this story, but the info sucks.

Moral: If you have work that you want to retain the rights to you must prove you created it, and when. Don't assume everyone will play nice or fair. If you can't prove you had it before they did, you may be in trouble!

His Twitter: http://twitter.com/relevantstudio
His website portfolio: http://www.relevantstudio.com/
Other examples of his work: http://www.behance.net/Relevant

(cross-posted a couple of places)

I started using Vox as work blocked livejournal and I was addicted. I now use multiple blogging sites, at least 2 microblogging sites plus a couple of picture sites and keep trying out new things! If you don't see me here much you can try find me via my wordpress welcome page that has a list of other places you can find me on the left hand side:

http://bluecatonline.wordpress.com/welcome/

I also use Ping.fm to post / blast a single post to multiple locations ~ I notice the formatting comes out a bit poorly but I can come back and re-format.

Also, in case you think I don't read you, I have a number of Voxers on my rss feed ~ OK, if I don't log in then I don't get to see any neighbourhood only posts etc but.....

Hopefully I will get around to coming back here properly every so often. Work and life is busy and I keep going 'OOOOh! Shiney!' at new websites.

http://ping.fm/Dkuol http://ping.fm/hAM4n

"The very act of putting the Sympathy Pin on, is a self acknowledgment that you are not feeling "normal" or "okay" and that this is quite reasonable. You need to allow yourself time to grieve. In Western societies we do not enjoy strong and structured community support, as we go about our often isolate lives. The Sympathy Pin allows others to recognize where you are in your life at this time and that you need them to bear with you."

This is quite interesting idea. Not sure how well this would work if others don't recognise what the pin means. I came across it in the context of the Australian Bushfires, and the need to recognise those who are grieving.

~ THis is an attempt to post via Ping.fm to my blogs. It sort of worked....

Random kitty pic

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Dr Ben Goldacre who blogs at Badscience.net posted the following on 5th Feb: Er, “help”. Legal Chill from LBC 97.3 and “Global Radio” over Jeni Barnett’s MMR scaremongering

LBC have instructed their lawyers to contact me.

Two days ago I posted about a broadcast in which their presenter Jeni Barnett exemplified some of the most irresponsible, ill-informed, and ignorant anti-vaccination campaigning that I have ever heard on the public airwaves. This is important because it can cost lives, and you can read about the media’s MMR hoax here.

To illustrate my grave concerns, I posted the relevant segment about MMR from her show, 44 minutes, which a reader kindly excerpted for me from the rest of the three hour programme. It is my view that Jeni Barnett torpedoes her reputation in that audio excerpt so effectively that little explanation is needed.

LBC’s lawyers say that the clip I posted is a clear infringement of their copyright, that I must take it down immediately, that I must inform them when I have done so, and that they “reserve their rights”.

~Click on the link I posted to read more.

The issue seems to be that the people who are backing the bad science are being legal bullies. Legal in that they are likely to be legally correct in applying the law. Bullies in that they are really trying to suppress a particular opinion. I don't know lots about the issues (I do know a bit about the MMR issue, that is different) and invite people to check it out for themselvs.

Cases of measles have risen sharply in parts of Europe, reflecting the mobility of people carrying the disease and the failure to complete vaccination strategies among key communities, The Lancet reported on Wednesday.

*Sigh*

The MMR vaccine debacle has been shown to be a whole load of hooey, yet people still choose to avoid the vaccine.

"Around 197,000 people died from measles in 2007, a fall of 74 percent from 2000, thanks to a massive immunisation campaign, according to WHO figures published on December 4.

In the early 1960s, as many as 135 million cases of occurred each year, six million of them fatal."

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