Should I or Should I Not.....

I have been thinking for a long time now about the blogger's feature to keep the blog open only for the people I choose. I don't want to be rude but the emails I'm getting about using my blog's content on business sites make me think like this. I usually pay no attention to these kinds of mails because I don't know how to respond. When I checked a couple of links I got by email the other day, I was shocked to see my blog posts already appearing within their website. What they actually do is locate Indian blog posts and list it in their website. When the link is clicked, the blog post opens in another frame within their website. Kind of like a feed reader, but with a different objective.

One of the emails claims that my blog is already listed on their website which makes me eligible to use some of the free features on their website(duh!). I really don't know what to do.
Another person who left a comment, which I haven't published yet, is offering customized widgets made by the photos downloaded from this blog.

This really irritates me as I believe my blog is my own space. What I write here is just some of my kitchen experiences, the recipes I want to share with my faithful readers, and the images I click on my kitchen and the dining table. I even write about my kids. I don't want these to appear on any other websites, especially business oriented ones. As I have already mentioned on the sidebar, the only purpose of this blog is to share some food related matters with my loyal readers. Most of the visitors reach on this blog through google searches. The keywords are usually recipe names. So if my blog can be of any help to those people who are looking for recipes, I'm happy. And that is the only reason I keep my blog open for all.

Once again, my target is all of you, like-minded fellow bloggers(who come here occasionally and look for updates, read if it is interesting to you, and share comments about what I've wrote about), and those innocent new cooks who search for recipes.

I am not interested in business networking.

I am not looking for increased readership.

I am not looking for customized or any kind of widgets.

Emails and comments of this kind will not be entertained.

For now, let me deliberately forget about all the content/picture theft going on in the blog world otherwise it would be a day-long rant!

Thank you for reading.. Feeling much better now. :)