Comments on: Blog Plagiarism — a problem? http://www.webpublishingblog.com/blog-plagiarism-a-problem.htm Internet publishing, a multidisciplinary approach. Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:46:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Mark Alan Effinger http://www.webpublishingblog.com/blog-plagiarism-a-problem.htm#comment-1544 Mark Alan Effinger Fri, 02 Jun 2006 19:18:55 +0000 http://www.webpublishingblog.com/blog-plagiarism-a-problem.htm#comment-1544 Podcasting is beginning to supplement the marketing efforts of many marketers. Just as with any emerging technology, we are going to find new ways of using the “next new thing” every day! One example: I just found out about the way a press release distribution service (www.prweb.com) taking podcasting to new places. This was inevitable! "Podding" may be a fairly “new wave” marketing tool, but it’s already it's evolving new mutant strains. PRWeb has just become the first ever provider of "open source" pod content. It's done under something called a Creative Commons license—and it rocks! Take any of the podcasts they make available and slice ‘em, dice ‘em, stir ‘em, shake ‘em... do anything you want with the content. Make it your own. You can string podcast interviews together to make a news program, add a podcast to a Power Point, add music to the audio, insert your own comments, use the podcast as the soundtrack to a video... it's all their for you to play with… and it’s free. Check it out at http://prweb.com/. Look for: ”PRWeb Podcasting Creates More Visibility..." We can all have fun with this. Podcasting is beginning to supplement the marketing efforts of many marketers. Just as with any emerging technology, we are going to find new ways of using the “next new thing” every day! One example: I just found out about the way a press release distribution service (www.prweb.com) taking podcasting to new places. This was inevitable! “Podding” may be a fairly “new wave” marketing tool, but it’s already it’s evolving new mutant strains. PRWeb has just become the first ever provider of “open source” pod content. It’s done under something called a Creative Commons license—and it rocks! Take any of the podcasts they make available and slice ‘em, dice ‘em, stir ‘em, shake ‘em… do anything you want with the content. Make it your own. You can string podcast interviews together to make a news program, add a podcast to a Power Point, add music to the audio, insert your own comments, use the podcast as the soundtrack to a video… it’s all their for you to play with… and it’s free. Check it out at http://prweb.com/. Look for:
”PRWeb Podcasting Creates More Visibility…” We can all have fun with this.

]]> By: anty http://www.webpublishingblog.com/blog-plagiarism-a-problem.htm#comment-1431 anty Tue, 23 May 2006 21:19:47 +0000 http://www.webpublishingblog.com/blog-plagiarism-a-problem.htm#comment-1431 Generally I don't like anyone to just copy my whole post and repost it on their websites, but I tolerate it if they give me at least a backlink. It would be better if they would just copy some sentences, as you said. I do it this way, or I rewrite large parts and sum them up in short sentences. It would be better if everyone would think before copying a post... Generally I don’t like anyone to just copy my whole post and repost it on their websites, but I tolerate it if they give me at least a backlink.
It would be better if they would just copy some sentences, as you said. I do it this way, or I rewrite large parts and sum them up in short sentences.

It would be better if everyone would think before copying a post…

]]> By: chris http://www.webpublishingblog.com/blog-plagiarism-a-problem.htm#comment-1429 chris Tue, 23 May 2006 14:10:07 +0000 http://www.webpublishingblog.com/blog-plagiarism-a-problem.htm#comment-1429 Reading other blogs on the same topic could easily lead to plagiarism. But then don't you have the whole "duplicate content across different sites" issue from an search engine perspective? If readers read enough blogs on a similar topic, they are bound to find blogs that just plagerize others and drop those from their reading list. I find reading other blogs gives me great blog articles myself - not because I plagiarism but because of "hey, I never thought of that." For instance, if I've have a long day but need to feed my debt reduction blog a new entry so the search engines keep coming back for more food, I'll look into similar blogs and pick some random archive date from at least 4 months back. Then I read through and look for ideas. This way, I'm not one more blog spouting the same content on the same day. What I'm not doing is posting news...yeah, like I need one more blog posting the same news. Reading other blogs on the same topic could easily lead to plagiarism. But then don’t you have the whole “duplicate content across different sites” issue from an search engine perspective?

If readers read enough blogs on a similar topic, they are bound to find blogs that just plagerize others and drop those from their reading list.

I find reading other blogs gives me great blog articles myself - not because I plagiarism but because of “hey, I never thought of that.”

For instance, if I’ve have a long day but need to feed my debt reduction blog a new entry so the search engines keep coming back for more food, I’ll look into similar blogs and pick some random archive date from at least 4 months back. Then I read through and look for ideas. This way, I’m not one more blog spouting the same content on the same day.

What I’m not doing is posting news…yeah, like I need one more blog posting the same news.

]]> By: Andrew http://www.webpublishingblog.com/blog-plagiarism-a-problem.htm#comment-1426 Andrew Tue, 23 May 2006 05:25:21 +0000 http://www.webpublishingblog.com/blog-plagiarism-a-problem.htm#comment-1426 I agree that some do push it over the edge; I saw a recent example where a blogger was reposting another blogger's entire post and simply adding a few sentences of comments. Worse, they were doing it with every single post. However, this is certainly rare in my own experience. As far as clickthrough rates, I think what is more important is quality not quantity. I know that some influencial people read this blog; that is a lot more important to me than 1000 uniques in one day from a multi-level marketing forum. The one thing that does bother me is when someone does not reference the source. I don't care if they use one sentence or three paragraphs, if they don't name and link to me, then I've got a problem (or even worse, if they claim it as their own, but thats a different issue altogether.) Once a tv station quoted one of my sites, referencing it as "a website." In fact, the same thing happened with another tv station just last month. I was referenced as "online." Yeah, that pisses me off. I agree that some do push it over the edge; I saw a recent example where a blogger was reposting another blogger’s entire post and simply adding a few sentences of comments. Worse, they were doing it with every single post. However, this is certainly rare in my own experience.

As far as clickthrough rates, I think what is more important is quality not quantity. I know that some influencial people read this blog; that is a lot more important to me than 1000 uniques in one day from a multi-level marketing forum.

The one thing that does bother me is when someone does not reference the source. I don’t care if they use one sentence or three paragraphs, if they don’t name and link to me, then I’ve got a problem (or even worse, if they claim it as their own, but thats a different issue altogether.) Once a tv station quoted one of my sites, referencing it as “a website.” In fact, the same thing happened with another tv station just last month. I was referenced as “online.” Yeah, that pisses me off.

]]> By: Jonathan Bailey http://www.webpublishingblog.com/blog-plagiarism-a-problem.htm#comment-1424 Jonathan Bailey Tue, 23 May 2006 01:53:44 +0000 http://www.webpublishingblog.com/blog-plagiarism-a-problem.htm#comment-1424 While I largely agree that mass quoting isn't a bad thing, one of the reasons I carry a Creative Commons License, some bloggers do carry it much too far. Some reproduce whole posts with only footer links. While I have no personal problem with this, thus my license, others do and I understand. Recent studies regarding click through relationships for blog syndication Blogburst are conflicting. Some report less than 1%, others, as high as 30%. Who's right? I don't know yet. However, I suspect that there's a point in which content reuse active discourages follow up. Where that point is was one of the topics I was trying to raise. As far as following copyright law, it's worth noting that a lot of ethical blog quoting goes beyond the bounds of strict fair use. If the Web followed the letter of the law, there's be almost nothing left... Just a thought. While I largely agree that mass quoting isn’t a bad thing, one of the reasons I carry a Creative Commons License, some bloggers do carry it much too far. Some reproduce whole posts with only footer links. While I have no personal problem with this, thus my license, others do and I understand.

Recent studies regarding click through relationships for blog syndication Blogburst are conflicting. Some report less than 1%, others, as high as 30%. Who’s right? I don’t know yet.

However, I suspect that there’s a point in which content reuse active discourages follow up. Where that point is was one of the topics I was trying to raise.

As far as following copyright law, it’s worth noting that a lot of ethical blog quoting goes beyond the bounds of strict fair use. If the Web followed the letter of the law, there’s be almost nothing left…

Just a thought.

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