http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2002-2006 by the authors Sat, 18 Oct 2003 14:02:14 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/10/17/215212.php#comment-23972 Thanks, Eric. Al, to be fair, I'm not sure they ever had it on their website. The post in question came via a newsletter. And you raised a good question about the term papers. When I was Googling for stuff about plagiarism last night, I came across a bunch of information about those "order a five-pager on the Battle of Hastings" sites and services. I wonder why any student would udertake the risk when it's so easy to get busted doing it. ]]> 23972@blogcritics.org Sat, 18 Oct 2003 14:02:14 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/10/17/215212.php#comment-23969 I don't see how someone could expect to grab big chunks of stuff to put on a web page and think that it would NOT be noticed. It's going to turn up in search engines and such, just as Temple describes. Same thing for students copying term paper material off the net. It is entirely easy for a professor to do a search on a couple of distinctive phrases from a suspect paper. ]]> 23969@blogcritics.org Sat, 18 Oct 2003 13:22:08 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/10/17/215212.php#comment-23960 Very disturbing Emily - people are weird. I am trying to figure out what is gained by in essence borrowing someone else's life?! Thanks and good luck with it. ]]> 23960@blogcritics.org Sat, 18 Oct 2003 12:55:01 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/10/17/215212.php#comment-23954 Temple -- indeed I sign up for newsletters expecting, for the most part, nothing but extremism. Somebody's got to keep an eye on 'em, no? I'm sorry to hear about your troubles with your own blog. If memory serves, web design goddess Sekimori had someone do exactly the same thing to her. ]]> 23954@blogcritics.org Sat, 18 Oct 2003 09:52:58 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/10/17/215212.php#comment-23945 Someone stole my whole blog (not my current one) with very few changes and passed it on as their own for a few weeks before I found it in a search engine. I had a few of my non-digital friends digitally bully him/her into not doing it. That was fun. PS If you signed up for that newsletter expecting anything but extremism, well .... ]]> 23945@blogcritics.org Sat, 18 Oct 2003 00:54:11 EDT