Comments on: Eating our vegetables http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2005/10/08/eating-our-vegetables/ Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:13:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Bene Diction http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2005/10/08/eating-our-vegetables/#comment-5164 Bene Diction Mon, 10 Oct 2005 10:57:28 +0000 http://ss75.shared.server-system.net/~benedictionblogson.com/?p=1804#comment-5164 I'm finding a fair number of rip off blogs also. It is really annoying, and I suspect it will get worse before it gets better. Unless I know the blogger it is getting so I source their source like you did. I’m finding a fair number of rip off blogs also. It is really annoying, and I suspect it will get worse before it gets better.
Unless I know the blogger it is getting so I source their source like you did.

]]> By: Roy Jacobsen http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2005/10/08/eating-our-vegetables/#comment-5163 Roy Jacobsen Sun, 09 Oct 2005 16:16:54 +0000 http://ss75.shared.server-system.net/~benedictionblogson.com/?p=1804#comment-5163 Bene, Thanks for posting this. I don't think that people should be frightened away from blogging because of this, but we should all be aware of the different legal and ethical aspects of what we're doing. Checking sources is one example that I encountered just last night. I saw a pointer to a blog article on site X that looked interesting, and I wanted to link to it. Then I saw in the comments section that pointed out that the article had been lifted word for word from an MSN site. I checked around site X some more, and using Google discovered that two other articles had been lifted verbatim from other sources, with no credit given. I'd heard about that particular pernicious practice, but this was the first time I saw it in the flesh. Bene,
Thanks for posting this. I don’t think that people should be frightened away from blogging because of this, but we should all be aware of the different legal and ethical aspects of what we’re doing.

Checking sources is one example that I encountered just last night. I saw a pointer to a blog article on site X that looked interesting, and I wanted to link to it. Then I saw in the comments section that pointed out that the article had been lifted word for word from an MSN site. I checked around site X some more, and using Google discovered that two other articles had been lifted verbatim from other sources, with no credit given. I’d heard about that particular pernicious practice, but this was the first time I saw it in the flesh.

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