Blogging to Ruin Reputations

Recently a friend of mine emailed me a link to a blog on blogger.com (owned by Google) and said I had to go look. I clicked the link and took a look. I immediately had a bad feeling after reading only a couple of entries. The blog was full of nasty snide remarks and negativity about other people's horses. But being busy and not having much time I clicked off and replied to my friend's email that the blog gave me a bad taste in my mouth and left it at that. Because I do not want to in anyway boost this blog's hits I will not reveal the link.

A week later a dear friend of mine was a target of this bloggers wrath. This blogger scours websites and online photo hosting sites looking for pictures of other people's horses to critique and posts them on her blog. She claims her blog is "educational". My friend's horse was a rescue horse that she had taken in to rehabilitate and care for. The pictures the blogger used were the initial pictures of the horse when my friend first got her home. The picture the blogger used also had my friend's young daughter in them. So this blogger posted pictures that she had no rights to (copyright or any other right) and went on to post nasty comments about the condition and conformation of the young horse. My friend posted on the blog and explained that the horse was a rescue and that is why she is so thin in the pictures and asked that the blogger please remove her pictures from her blog.