The only thing more frustrating that searching for a plagiarist is finding one — PT

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Sooner or later, popular or not, your blog content (words, ideas, and images) will get stolen. After the shock wears off, a subtle feeling of pride might come over you — don’t feel flattered. Whoever it was that took your work, probably did so because they thought you wouldn’t notice and more importantly, it was easily available allowing them to profit with minimal effort.

Jonathan Bailey of Plagiarism Today has written extensively on the subject of content theft and plagiarism. His insight and thoughts on the matter are top notch and I strongly recommend you start reading at his site should you discover your content has been stolen (Plagiarism Today is also a great resource to look to in order to prevent content theft and plagiarism). Plagiarism Today recommends the following course of action when dealing with plagiarism (see Plagiarism Today for the expanded version).: » Read the rest of the entry..

A digital fingerprint can be thought of as your own personal googlewhack, or a search query that generates only one result. Consider the following example, one of the worst possible digital fingerprint choices would probably be the end with over 400 000 000 million results indexed in Google. It would not be possible to distinguish your own the end’s from other the hundreds of millions of other web pages that contain that phrase.

However, if we add a single word to the end we can create a unique and personal fingerprint, » Read the rest of the entry..

Recently, it has come to my attention that there is a new type of insipid blogger. Unlike splogs which are created to promote commercial websites and contain mostly garbage text, these new blogs look polished and contain seemingly pertinent content of value.

The problem is, the text within has already been published by someone else. I name these plagiarist’s doppelbloggers.

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