[LINK] Advice needed on how to stop a stupid blog spoof site attributing posts to me

[Richard Chirgwin]

Anne,

I'm not sure that it's feasible to put an end to it, given how hard it 
is for people to stop much nastier things happening on blog sites. A 
commenter can use any name the site accepts. My sympathies.

Richard Chirgwin

Anne Hugo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I wondered if someone on Link could give me some advice on how to stop
> a spurious website from attributing its blog postings to me/ misusing
> my name?
> I can find no admin to complain to.
>
>
> On 4 Feb: http://www.discount-golf-equipment.net/news/Anne-Kellas.html
>
> and now today: http://starbuzzreports.com/blogs/Anne-Kellas.html
>
>
> As a writer, I have used the name Anne Kellas for years,  A Google
> alert that I set to find any citations to myself lead me to these
> sites.
> The wording on their site obviously comes from a wiki entry. (Under my
> poet name Anne Kellas I have, as most poets do, a blog , a website for
> my books and an entry in wikipedia etc.)
> But I can't see whom to complain to.
>
> What should I do? First time early in Feb I thought Oh well just
> ignore it but then a similar URL cropped up. I suppose their whole
> idea is to scramble Google's search results or something.
>
> A year or so ago I was one of many authors whose name also got misused
> by three tertiary students who built a poetry machine -- ERICA, as
> part of a serious poetry project and this thing that randomly composed
> poems and equally randomly assigned authorship to about 4,000 poets it
> grabbed off the web. They did this with no prior consultation/consent
> and after a lot of fanfare about a project called "For Godot",  to
> create press interest, the results (randomly generated / composed poem
> with an author's name underneath it) were published online as one long
> PDF called "Issue 1"  --
> http://www.forgodot.com/2008/10/father-of-erica.html  --
> http://merzmensch.blog.de/2010/02/06/warten-7960166/ -- etc
>
> That was annoying but at least the authors made themselves available
> to responses from responded to the poets' comments (some took it as a
> joke and others got very serious).
>
> BUT in this case with this blinking blog, I can find no admin to complain to.
>
> WHat do you suggest I do?
>
> Thanks
> Anne (Kellas or Hugo will do)
>
>
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