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Do I Really Want to Share the Intimate Details of My Life With the Rest of the World?

This is a bit off the topic of cancer, but very much on the topic of putting together this new site. For the last few day I’ve been putting in some long hours at the computer, piecing together this blog, which I now call Cancer NewsWatch. As I was taking a break this evening, I cruised the sites of a few well-respected bloggers (culled from a recent list by Darren at ProBlogger,) and came upon two similar posts, one at ShaiCoggins.com, the other at The Blog Herald, lamenting the outright theft of original content, presumably for the goal of making a quick buck on ad-revenue, and wandering what could or should be done about it. As a person fairly new to blogging, I have to say I find the subject disturbing, though certainly not surprising.

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Hello Cary,

You see why you ought to write about this topic? Because it reach intimately millions of people that have questions about how to handle it. I never had been confronted with cancer in my near surrounding (the few family members I have) but I know that soon or later there are good chances that it happen and then I will have many questions about the situation I’ll face, and people like you will help me in the process.

Keep going your good work Cary, I think you will help many people,

Salutations,

Fred