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Jaclyn Fishman Accepted at Boston’s Gastronomy Graduate Program + More!

Jaclyn Fishman

Jaclyn Fishman of Food Plus Words has been accepted to Boston University’s Gastronomy graduate program.  Read more >

When Photos of Your Children are Used in an Internet Hoax

Tertia, Kate, and Adam

Imagine discovering pictures of your children on someone else's blog or Facebook page; the pictures you took of your kids at their birthday party or the swimming pool or dressed up in crazy outfits now being used to create a fake life for a stranger as they claim your children as their own.  And now imagine the pictures being used in a scam that raised $1200 in several hours, garnering 6500 Facebook likes, that devastated thousands when they discovered that the whole thing was a hoax? Tertia Loebenberg Albertyn of So Close doesn't have to imagine it: it happened to her a few weeks ago.  Read more >

My Blog Got Stolen... And This is How I Got it Back

Train Robbery Still

My food blog got hijacked. Hijacked, like a plane. Like a stagecoach in the Old West. You heard me right. Hackers stole my domain, thehungrymouse.com, and from mid-March to mid-May, I had absolutely no control over it. I just got it back. If you haven't heard of domain theft before, it sounds crazy. After all, domain names are pretty intangible and live in cyberspace. But, domain names are a commodity, and are subject to theft just like other property. That is, if someone can figure out how to pull the rug out from under you.  Read more >

Publishing Your Blog to Kindle

Kindle

Some people like reading blogs via Google Reader or jumping straight to the site, but others like to subscribe to blogs via their Kindle not only for the ease of reading (blogs become then like online magazines) but because they want to support the writer.  Think of it as 99 cents in the tip jar.  Dishwater Dreams walks blog writers through the basic steps of publishing their blog to Kindle via Amazon.  Read more