Comments on: All Rights Reserved. As of Now.

By: Ant

Ant — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:33:34 +0000

By opting into Blogsherpa you basically give LP carte blanche to republish your content on their website free of charge.

In return you can use a tiny amount of their content (with the right accreditation) from the destination section. It’s basically mutual, but as LP will be sourcing from hundreds of blogs they become more powerful, and self-sufficient for free. Although I’m a little suspect as to whether they have the man power to police or make the best of their own programme.

They’ve also recently hinted that they’ll be making it mandatory that you become part of the single most annoying thing ever to be integrated into any similar scheme – that you have to subscribe to a mailing list. This mailing list is swamped with time wasters, so for any travel blogger stuck in down town Calcutta trying to fight his way over a dial up connection they’ll be battling these useless emails.

The touted incentive is that you earn revenue from Google AdSense, but to date I have earned a dismal 67p (US$1) from well over 100 posts (I backdated). The only reason I’ve stuck with it is that it does give me access to a slice of their readership, and it is bringing in readers in small droves but the more LP integrate Big Brother tactics, the more I’ll be put off.

By: Akila

Akila — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:35:48 +0000

I’ll be curious as to what you find out about the Lonely Planet blogsherpa program with respect to copyright. I remember reading in the fine print that Lonely Planet claims that the author retains copyright. But, I’m not entirely sure if that’s true since any participant in the Blogsherpa program allows Lonely Planet to copy all posts tagged as such. At minimum, I would think that it would weaken your copyright.

By: Ant

Ant — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:22:14 +0000

Thanks Darcy – I’m slowly starting to agree. Since I changed this blog to 3 columns (from 2) this is the only ‘wide’ header I’ve currently got. The illustrations are from an in-flight safety card, but I think they’re lost in some poor design.

My most popular headers have been based on my photography so I think I’ll relook at that angle. Thanks for your input.

Anyone else?

By: Darcy

Darcy — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 03:26:10 +0000

I love the stuff on the right. I’m not a huge fan of the cartoon stuff on the left though =|

By: Ant

Ant — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 22:11:50 +0000

ha, word spread of your plans, oh evil sentence stealer…

thanks for the compliment RE the redesigned header, I’m still unsure. Does anyone else have an opinion?

By: Nomadic Matt

Nomadic Matt — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:25:06 +0000

just when i was about to plagiarize your whole sit…you do this!! you’ve foiled me again….

ps- love the top banner