PLAGIARISM STRIKES BLOGOSPHERE! — by Steve Nadis
“Beth gets more than 500 hits per day at her blog, Cursed to First…She didn’t realize until recently that they were also being ripped off. Last month, an alert reader informed Beth that her blog was being plagiarized…, word-for-word, over six months. Names of people in her life were changed to the names of people whom the plagiarist apparently knew, creating the impression that she had lived Beth’s experiences and had thought her thoughts.”
If the foregoing paragraph sounds familiar, it should. As it was lifted, verbatim, from a Boston Globe article published last week (“Online plagiarism strikes blog world.” Boston Globe. May 8, 2006, E8.) I put that in there just to show how easy it is to plagiarize on the web. I don’t know if anyone has plagiarized Call Me Snake in the same way “Beth” has been violated, but perhaps there is a blog out there, somewhere, called “Call Me Jake” which is ostensibly a volleyball blog but seems to have more to do with handball and scones. Frankly I think I’d be flattered if someone felt my experiences were compelling enough to call their own. But maybe I’d find it creepy. And perhaps you would too. So consider this a cautionary tale. And be on the lookout for blog identity theft. The blog you save may be your own.
never thought of that ,,
i could rip off , a blog
identity ,, copy ,paste ,,
and oh my golly ,, i have a life….!
holy cow ,, is that how hollywood does it?????
“call me snake” is genuine …right..?..??
xm come to think of it,,
there’s a couple of zardoz’s on blogsphere..!
oh me gosh ,, we aint real ………
=z=
I think I’m genuine. But maybe I’m just someone else’s bad dream.
I heard about a conjoined twin who plagiarized all of his brother’s works, stole the brother’s identity, and slept with his wife. The brother couldn’t sue, though, because the lawyers argued that he not only knew what the accused was doing, hhe materially participated in the crimes.
Boy, what’s this world coming to when you can’t trust your own conjoined twin?
Thanks Gatemouth, what a sad and twisted tale. Sounds like a screenplay I thought about writing. It also sounds like a movie I saw based on a screenplay someone else thought about writing and then actually wrote.
…Can’t comment now Snake…..writing my newest post…..”Controversy racked the April Fool’s Day bumper sticker sweepstakes here at That One Blog…..”
Wow, Doc! You’re really flattering me.(Sounds like a great idea, by the way!)