Myspace may be the most popular social networking site, but its share of plagiarism seems to far outstrip its market share. Along with its sister site Photobucket, Myspace is likely the current king of human-born plagiarism.

After unofficially boycotting the site for several years, I’ve finally gotten around to creating my Facebook profile as well as a presence for Plagiarism Today.

Over the past year or so, I’ve resisted the micro blogging movement because, quite frankly, I didn’t see much use for it. However, after watching several people I know use Twitter and other services to great avail, I’ve decided to conduct something of an experiment to see if Twitter can help me with my work [...]

I’ve always felt that there is something to be said for solving a problem face to face. It seems, to me, that it is always best to resolve disagreements directly, when possible, and not involve outside parties.
The cease and desist letter is the obvious way to handle plagiarism and content theft matters face to [...]

If you need another reason to worry about content theft, consider the recent case involving the gossip blog Celebrity Hack.
About two weeks ago, an article on the site entitled “37 Famously Stupid Celebrity Quotes” was submitted to Digg. The story reached the front page briefly but was buried for unknown reasons.
Yesterday, a much lower-quality scraped [...]

To update yesterday’s post about Wordpress.com being relatively free of spam blogs, I was contacted by Anil Dash, a Vice President at Six Apart, about their LiveJournal service.
According to Dash, the LiveJournal service, though having a larger user base than Wordpress.com and being equally free to use, is also relatively free of spam blogs. He [...]