/ 1:22:00 AM

WRITEFULLY WRATHFUL



I got this forwarded email from pinklilstar about online plagiarism. It appears that some freak has made a career out of copying entries from other people's blogs. Ahh, pathetic much? I mean, come on, a blog's supposed to be an online repository of thoughts, presumably yours, especially if your blog's been masquerading as on online diary. What could be more pathetic than claiming somebody else's memories to be your very own?! Fine, mi-nodify nga nang konti. But helleeew, same diff!!! Nope, I'm not even gonna go into how people should come up with original efforts. It's such a gray area anyways. Coz given the sheer enormity of the entire planet's thinking population, there's probably no such thing as an original thought anymore. We're talking here about being milleniums late in the family tree. Pero, dude, tama ba namang angkinin ang mga entry sa blog ni pammy? Tsk tsk tsk. There isn't anything "gray" about plagiarism. It's pretty much black and white. It's stealing somebody else's writing and then passing it off as your own.



So, the freak probably can't write.. I'm sorry. I don't mean to generalize but plagiarists usually suffer from that particular syndrome ya know. So let me see if I've got this down: freak's got no juice, probably can't write, pretty low on decency, and nada on the ethics as well. Then what-the-heck-is-she-blogging-for-anyway?



Fight the freakin' plagiarists of the blogging community!



Send in the clone. A few weeks back, I began writing episode recaps for this show I've been obsessing on for the last couple of months. Since this series is relatively new, there really ain't much about the show on the internet yet. The soap has yet to grace the US market either so any hope of finding an English site (with English episode summaries) are nil. Just a handful of Russian(!) sites and some forums which mostly have Spanish-speaking participants. Goes without saying that I frequent those forums prettty regularly. Never mind that I'm totally dependent on Altavista and other online translating tools. So one day I was pleasantly surprised when my Google search yielded a positive result - someone who calls herself Isabella has posted an english summary. Coolness. So me0wL went clickety-click and bam, within a few seconds I was taken to the forum where the summary was posted. My eyes narrowed into slits as I scanned "her" post which looked very familiar. Very familiar indeed. And then my mild irritation gave way to downright indignation! Paano hindi magiging familiar eh nag-copy-paste ang @!*#?! Lil Ms.Copy-Paste didn't even bother to change the format. Or delete the Tagalog excerpts. Gaah. Okay, so I thought perhaps Lil Ms.Copy-Paste "forgot" to cite her source (which happens to be my site). I decided to look for her other lmdj-related posts and surprise surprise, twas not the first time she conveniently "forgot" to give any indication that the said summaries were written by someone else. There was even a post asking her where she got her summaries.. which actually provided her the opening to volunteer where she got her info. But noooo, deadma ang lokah! *By that time, my mind was screaming "Malicious intent!" like a LSS that won't quit. Like hellew.. link back?! Or if she wanted to hoard people to her forum, then she could've just said someting like "i got this summary from some site.. yadda yadda...". It would still constitute insufficient citation but I dunno, it's a much softer blow than seeing an uncredited piece of my work.



I know what happened to me is nowhere near pammy's encounter with the freak but it was small-scale suckiness just the same. I don't mind sharing my summaries, that's the reason why I put it up in the first place. But it is an entirely different thing altogether to see something you've written posted as somebody else's work. I felt..uhm, violated. And to think that the copied passages weren't even personal in nature! *sighs* I've stopped recapping episodes for a while. I must admit that I've arrived at that decision upon my discovery of Lil Ms.Copy-Paste's forum. But it's just a temporary hiatus anyhow. I'm not about to give her that much power over me. Sadyang tinatamad lang ako mag-recap sa ngayon. He3.



I always thought that "actual" writers (think columnists and book authors) are just the ones who have the misfortune of falling victim to these kinds of things. gadehm. Someone actually *coughs* "copy-pasted" my work. Heh. Under different circumstances, I might have found this slightly chuckle-worthy, but right now, I'm not amused. Not one bit.



And they say that Imitation is the best form of flattery. Flattery, my ass. Not when it's plagiarism, it most definitely isn't.

PROFILE: I am blah from class here and is born on 00/00/00, time. and so love me like this. I was so cute, I am totally an element that you'd never ever known, you can;t find it in the periodic table cause no one has even found it- I explode in your face just like potassium when it touches water, it's really explosive, you should really run away first before I do spark into flames and burn you alive! I love blasting my music as well, when love sync (elissa) let me hear Cry-Rihanna, i have been like addicted to it like drugs- oh wait. it's worse than drugs, it's better, more addictive than drugs. listen to that song! and this is one of my last blogskin that i will produce until the EOYs of 2008, cause i flunked Biology, ARGHS! OMG I SURE DIE LIKE !@#$% and i am emo now like under ltos of peer pressure and bad seniors.



having been in hwa chong institution (just like make it long so you can preview a long post or wad that fits right down underneath which i think i shall crap all day today) my eyes have been wanting to close since 20:00 (8PM)), I was so tired, cause the syllabus in hwachong is really so hard that no one can sleep really well. The new CSE classes (aka. Centre for Scholaristic Excellence) and is also known for it's famous nickname Cannot Sleep Everyday or Early. Is like even the teachers know, so the homework is reduced, but it's like OMG! will die, this year already so hard, next year i say "die!" mati already lar. arghs!NEXT, A RIOT OF COLORS, WHAT DO YOU THINK OF ME. AND I KNOW THAT I BRUISE EASILY. LEAP OF FATE LIKE i never know and i'm learning to fly and a safety net to cushion the blow. and i feel so suicidal and note "I BRUISE EASILY" and be gentle when you handle me.




hello once again, i have been having nightmares,no one is doing work for my project , whcih is true. supposed to do "family planning" is like whatever lar, when will we be able to use it not like very soon we are gonna have kids, settle down, earn money have NSman relief or whatsoever or even Children Relief, is like wtf. I am eating CIGAR ROLLS, they are vilina flavoured and jsut finished my bowl of ice cream which tasted so mixed, haha btu it was ncie to me (: I like mix of flavours liek suddenly a RIOT of colors and A EXPLOSION of taste! I mean like it's really impactful come to think about it, and cause my project has to be handed in by friday so i shall rush typign finish this retarded paragraph. like hello! ello! buhello! darkdegree will go on HIATUS soon. and i am so emo, i feel like slashing my wrist now, it's true adn don't look down on me for that i know people discriminate.

see you there at hiatus land.

/ 1:22:00 AM

WRITEFULLY WRATHFUL



I got this forwarded email from pinklilstar about online plagiarism. It appears that some freak has made a career out of copying entries from other people's blogs. Ahh, pathetic much? I mean, come on, a blog's supposed to be an online repository of thoughts, presumably yours, especially if your blog's been masquerading as on online diary. What could be more pathetic than claiming somebody else's memories to be your very own?! Fine, mi-nodify nga nang konti. But helleeew, same diff!!! Nope, I'm not even gonna go into how people should come up with original efforts. It's such a gray area anyways. Coz given the sheer enormity of the entire planet's thinking population, there's probably no such thing as an original thought anymore. We're talking here about being milleniums late in the family tree. Pero, dude, tama ba namang angkinin ang mga entry sa blog ni pammy? Tsk tsk tsk. There isn't anything "gray" about plagiarism. It's pretty much black and white. It's stealing somebody else's writing and then passing it off as your own.



So, the freak probably can't write.. I'm sorry. I don't mean to generalize but plagiarists usually suffer from that particular syndrome ya know. So let me see if I've got this down: freak's got no juice, probably can't write, pretty low on decency, and nada on the ethics as well. Then what-the-heck-is-she-blogging-for-anyway?



Fight the freakin' plagiarists of the blogging community!



Send in the clone. A few weeks back, I began writing episode recaps for this show I've been obsessing on for the last couple of months. Since this series is relatively new, there really ain't much about the show on the internet yet. The soap has yet to grace the US market either so any hope of finding an English site (with English episode summaries) are nil. Just a handful of Russian(!) sites and some forums which mostly have Spanish-speaking participants. Goes without saying that I frequent those forums prettty regularly. Never mind that I'm totally dependent on Altavista and other online translating tools. So one day I was pleasantly surprised when my Google search yielded a positive result - someone who calls herself Isabella has posted an english summary. Coolness. So me0wL went clickety-click and bam, within a few seconds I was taken to the forum where the summary was posted. My eyes narrowed into slits as I scanned "her" post which looked very familiar. Very familiar indeed. And then my mild irritation gave way to downright indignation! Paano hindi magiging familiar eh nag-copy-paste ang @!*#?! Lil Ms.Copy-Paste didn't even bother to change the format. Or delete the Tagalog excerpts. Gaah. Okay, so I thought perhaps Lil Ms.Copy-Paste "forgot" to cite her source (which happens to be my site). I decided to look for her other lmdj-related posts and surprise surprise, twas not the first time she conveniently "forgot" to give any indication that the said summaries were written by someone else. There was even a post asking her where she got her summaries.. which actually provided her the opening to volunteer where she got her info. But noooo, deadma ang lokah! *By that time, my mind was screaming "Malicious intent!" like a LSS that won't quit. Like hellew.. link back?! Or if she wanted to hoard people to her forum, then she could've just said someting like "i got this summary from some site.. yadda yadda...". It would still constitute insufficient citation but I dunno, it's a much softer blow than seeing an uncredited piece of my work.



I know what happened to me is nowhere near pammy's encounter with the freak but it was small-scale suckiness just the same. I don't mind sharing my summaries, that's the reason why I put it up in the first place. But it is an entirely different thing altogether to see something you've written posted as somebody else's work. I felt..uhm, violated. And to think that the copied passages weren't even personal in nature! *sighs* I've stopped recapping episodes for a while. I must admit that I've arrived at that decision upon my discovery of Lil Ms.Copy-Paste's forum. But it's just a temporary hiatus anyhow. I'm not about to give her that much power over me. Sadyang tinatamad lang ako mag-recap sa ngayon. He3.



I always thought that "actual" writers (think columnists and book authors) are just the ones who have the misfortune of falling victim to these kinds of things. gadehm. Someone actually *coughs* "copy-pasted" my work. Heh. Under different circumstances, I might have found this slightly chuckle-worthy, but right now, I'm not amused. Not one bit.



And they say that Imitation is the best form of flattery. Flattery, my ass. Not when it's plagiarism, it most definitely isn't.