If the House of Annie’s Foodie Gift Guide and Rasa Malaysia’s guide weren’t enough, I give you guides from over 80 different sites, full of gift suggestions for foodies.
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Holiday Foodie Gift Guide
If you’ve wracked your brain thinking about what gift to get for your foodie friend or relative, and are just about ready to get them a lame gift card, STOP RIGHT THERE!
Trust me on this, a gift card is NOT the way to go (in case you don’t know, most gift cards don’t get used and it’s the STORE that benefits, not your friend). But, have no fear! We decided that this year, we would make a list of things any foodie who is like us would love to get for Christmas.
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House of Annie’s Third Bloggerversary
Today marks the 3rd anniversary for the House of Annie food blog and boy did it come up fast! We originally had plans to do something big and fun to celebrate but since Annie and I were out of town in KL, we didn’t have enough time to work it all out. Oh well; there’s always next month…
A lot has changed in a years’ time! A year ago, we were happily living, eating out and cooking in San Jose, California. The blog was growing, and I think we were beginning to hit our stride and get noticed. We even got a little mainstream press attention when I wrote our memorial to Ryo, the Sushi Man of San Francisco, who was unfortunately killed at the beginning of this year.
Stop, Blog Thief!
Thanks to a lot of commenters and personal emails, we have been alerted to a site that has stolen content from the House of Annie blog and many others. Compare the two screenshots below:
Scraper’s site
House of Annie site
I am extremely upset to see my work posted on someone else’s site, because I have put in hundreds of hours building our site only to see someone else just come and copy our posts to their site. (Okay, they didn’t just copy — they also edited each post to take out our signatures and also changed the internal links to point to their site.)
Because this “scraper” blog is hosted on Blogspot / Blogger (Google), there are a couple of things you can do to report it. If this blog has stolen content from your site, file a DMCA report to Google. The URL for the online report is
http://www.google.com/support/blogger/bin/request.py?contact_type=blogger_dmca_infringment
For the rest of you dear readers who are just plain mad and would like to do something about it, report the blog as Spam by going to
http://www.google.com/support/blogger/bin/request.py?contact_type=spam&hl=en&blog_ID=&blog_URL=
and entering
http://hot-kitchen.blogspot.com
in the text box.
Hopefully Google will investigate and take this site down.
To the scraper who stole our content, I leave this haiku:
I wish you would get
A hundred thousand bug bites
Where the sun don’t shine
Aloha, Nate
Update Oct 6, 2009: DMCA report submitted to Google. We’ll see how long it takes to get the site taken down.
Update Oct 7, 2009: Google has taken down the site! Hot-kitchen has gone cold.
LET THAT BE A LESSON TO YOU BLOG THIEVES!