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Bloggers are the New Plagiarism

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the i-think-i've-heard-that-before dept.

mjeppsen writes "PlagiarismToday offers a thought-provoking article that frankly discusses concerns with plagiarism and rote content theft among bloggers. In the section entitled "Block quotes by the Dozen" the author mentions the so-called "gray area". That is PlagiarismToday's classification of the common blogger practice of re-using large blocks of text/content from the original article or source, even when the source is attributed."

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  1. Obligatory by Khammurabi · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Hey, I just read this on slashdot:
    mjeppsen writes "PlagiarismToday offers a thought-provoking article that frankly discusses concerns with plagiarism and rote content theft among bloggers. In the section entitled "Block quotes by the Dozen" the author mentions the so-called "gray area". That is PlagiarismToday's classification of the common blogger practice of re-using large blocks of text/content from the original article or source, even when the source is attributed."
  2. funny by not+goods · · Score: 0, Redundant

    you people who modded this insightful surely recognized that it's funny, yea? block quotes from the original post? am i alone?