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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. GOATSE BLESS AMERICA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I am a goat

  2. "gray area" by _PimpDaddy7_ · · Score: -1, Troll

    In the section entitled "Block quotes by the Dozen" the author mentions the so-called "gray area".

    Yah, it's that BULLSHIT? :)

  3. Oh noes! My art! Stolen!!!1oneoenevelen by voice_of_all_reason · · Score: -1, Troll

    Seriously. Grow up, emo kids.

  4. Here's MY comment on pagiarism by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    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.

  5. Yeah... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    and people who cite Internet sources are clearly plaigarizing too...

  6. Re:DemocratsBlogs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I hate Democrat hate blogs that are out there and focus on half of one side of a story to make it look as bad as possible for anyone other than themselves.

    The worst part, is that they link to themselves over and over and over and over and over and over worse than a hick family tree were all the grandmas grandpas, children and grand children descended fromt he same 2 people.

    Take a recent look on google for "Cheney Indictment" and you will see hundreds of Democrat blogs on the subject, all citing other democrat blogs as the definitive and truthful source, when in the end the story was put up as a sensational tabloid article with no truth behind it at all. ( http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/links et/2005/04/11/LI2005041100587.html )

    Bloggers are not the new news media, they are just a bunch of people who have found out a place were people will read their opinions, nod their heads, and help them mentally wack themselves off at how awsome they are and how many people they can get to agree.

    Plagarism isnt even the half of it, these people cite sources that cite sources to the point were it would be difficult to find out were the original story came from, its like a horrible game of telephone gone awry, or the before mentioned incestuous family forgetting whose kid little jenny is.