Stuff you should know
This page covers a few things that you should know about this blog, including guidelines for leaving comments, copyright and disclosure.
Credits
The strapline for The New Wolf’s Howl (In these hands, I’ve held the broken dream, In my soul, I’m howling at the moon) is from Testimony by Robbie Robertson.
…and a few words of thanks
.. to Wil Wheaton, who’s WWdN and WWdN: In Exile were the inspiration for me to get blogging. (Read more here).
.. to all those other bloggers that I read the most - CodeHappy, TechCrunch, Huffington Post and others - who’s posts continued what Wil had started and which help me to develop my own writing.
.. to you, Constant Reader, for being there for me to blog to.
Guidelines
Further to this post, I’ve come up with some guidelines to govern The New Wolf’s Howl.
- I don’t expect you to agree with me all the time (or any of the time), but don’t expect me to agree with you either.
- All posts made from today (17 April 2007) will allow comments, so if you want to comment, please do. Please bear in mind that all comments are moderated and Defensio-filtered and that anonymous comments are not permitted.
- Please be civil; if you don’t agree with what I (or someone else) have said, tell me why. Don’t just be rude. Personal attacks on either myself or others will not be allowed and any such comments will be either edited or deleted.
- Think about what you want to say, but also about how you want to say it.
Hopefully, if we all follow these few simple guidelines (which, lets face it, should be self-evident to most people), we can all gain from the experience. If you choose not to follow the guidelines, please remember that The New Wolf’s Howl is not a democracy - and the Wolf has big teeth!
Disclaimer
I’d like to make it very clear that The New Wolfs Howl is my personal blog. I write about many different subjects; some of those subjects will be related to the industry I work in or the company I work for. Nothing that appears on The New Wolfs Howl is endorsed or sanctioned in any way by my employer, nor does it represent their opinion on any subject. All opinions expressed in posts on The New Wolfs Howl are mine and mine alone.
If you have an issue with anything that appears on The New Wolfs Howl that you don’t feel comfortable discussing in the comments for the post concerned, please use the form that you’ll find on the Contact page. Please bear in mind that, as I run this blog in my personal time, it might take a little while for me to reply to you.
All opinions expressed in comments on The New Wolfs Howl are those of the individual commentator only.
Disclosure Policy
At any given time there may be sponsored posts on The New Wolf’s Howl. ALL such posts will be clearly identified (with something obvious like “This is a sponsored post”) and I will leave it up to you to decide whether I’m being a shill and prostituting my intergrity. (Nods to Arrington). This blog is monetarily rewarded for sponsored posts.
With the alpha-launch of SocialSpark, the new enterprise from Izea, there will also be times when this blog displays a Blog Sponsorhip banner and / or overlay. This blog is monetarily rewarded for blog sponsorship arrangements.
I also have links to various commercial entities and I want to make clear my position:
Every time I update my “Books” page, I place a link to Amazon so that you can buy the book in question if you want. If you buy the book and you’ve clicked my link to get there, then I get a referral fee. I don’t earn anything from your clicks.
I also have links to the company that I work for, both in “Wolf’s Links” and, if it’s relevant, in some of my posts. Again, I don’t earn anything from these links; I believe in the products that the company I work for sells (I use them myself) and want to give you the chance to check them out. That’s all.
I have also recently introduced ads to the site (in the sidebar on the home page). I’ve put these in a widget called “Wolfs Ads” so it should be clear to all that these are commercial enticements, either for products, services or websites. I get paid (either monetarily, or in credits that I can then use to advertise The Wolfs Howl) for hosting them, and when users click on them.
Finally, I have added a widget called WP Auctions which enables me to auction off either stuff that I own, advertising on The Wolfs Howl or my copy-writing services.
If you would like to discuss what opportunities are available to you as an advertiser, please use the contact form.
Copyright
Copyright © 2007-2008. All Rights Reserved
No part of The New Wolf’s Howl is under a Creative Commons License. All content on The New Wolf’s Howl is the property of the blog owner and protected by UK and international copyright laws and cannot be stored on any retrieval system, reproduced, reposted, displayed, modified or transmitted in any form, electronic or otherwise without written permission of the copyright owner.
The only exception to this is in the instance where a brief excerpt of content may be quoted as long as an active hyperlink is provided back to the source page on The New Wolf’s Howl and that it is made clear that the content quoted is original work owned by The New Wolfs Howl.
The fact that The New Wolf’s Howl publishes an RSS feed does not grant any rights for republication or re-use of the material except in the manner already described.
For copyright purposes, The New Wolf’s Howl is not in the public domain.
Basically, if you want to use any of my stuff be polite and ask. This may not be great work on a par with War And Peace or Romeo And Juliet, but it is my own and I cherish it. Please don’t abuse it by stealing it and passing it off as yours.
Thank you.