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[quote=Anonymous]I am a blogger. Not dooce level or anything but I do make some money from it and am very proud of it. I have a Google Alert set up to let me know when anyone writes about my blog. Today, I got an alert that really upset me.

Another blogger wrote an entry about a weird email she got from an anonymous poster accusing a third blogger of being married to a rapist and pedophile, and I guess, supporting him in his crimes. The blogger who wrote about this changed the name of the third blogger to protect her identity...but she changed the name to the name of MY blog. So now, when you Google my blog, one of the results is a link to this email, which reads, "Sewsie Hamilton, of Sewsie Hamilton's Knitting Blog is married to a rapist and pedophile." I don't think it was done intentionally, as I have no reason to think this blogger knows about my blog, but it's a pretty distinctive name and most other references on the internet do link back to my site.

I plan to contact the author and let her know that I want her to remove the name of my blog from her entry and to make a comment saying that it is in no way affiliated with my blog. I am wondering if this is within my rights, though, to make this request? And if the original blogger refuses, how should I proceed from there? Does anybody have any advice for how to handle this? TIA.[/quote]

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