It all started with Google Alerts.  I subscribe to an alert for "Table for Five".   A couple of months ago, I got an alert for a post on "Table for Five Reviews and Giveaways". I clicked the link. Sure enough, it took me to a  blog with that title, a blog started in January 2010 by a woman with three kids.  I thought to myself well, maybe she didn't realize there's already a blog called Table for Five. So I emailed her. I very politely pointed out that my blog is almost five years old, that I post reviews and giveaways, and that calling her blog the same name as mine would just confuse her readers.  I asked her to consider changing the name of her  blog. She emailed me back and said NO.  No, she said, it's too late to change the name (which, no it's not), and besides she already had a Facebook page set up and she was so proud of herself for doing it, and she wasn't going to change it. Period. WELL THEN. I got an email this morning from one of my RSS email … [Read more...]