{"id":5217,"date":"2011-03-03T17:21:44","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T17:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=5217"},"modified":"2011-03-03T17:21:44","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T17:21:44","slug":"imitation-the-sincerest-form-of-flattery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=5217","title":{"rendered":"Imitation – The Sincerest Form Of Flattery"},"content":{"rendered":"

I did a trackback using my web traffic data and found a link on someone’s blog (who links to this one) to another blog.<\/p>\n

\"BartNow, I would hope that this blog has maybe inspired a few other people to set one up of their own - whatever walks of life they might come from. But I was a bit surprised to find one which has almost the same name as mine, and which seemed to draw on some of my articles for its own content. It even has a similar tagline.<\/p>\n

I wonder if I should be flattered or offended?<\/p>\n

I think I’ll go with the first one. After all, it might just be a complete coincidence – there are bound to be common topics in this business.<\/p>\n

On the subject of plagiarism though, I once went round to a friends house to fix his son’s computer. I had to wait while the lad printed off his homework – it was the entire Wikipedia page about Shakespeare. The worrying thing is that he probably got an A for it.<\/p>\n

As for web forums, people seem to think that cut-and-paste or just linking to articles somehow reflects on their own knowledge and intelligence. Weeeell… it does… because in most cases - if you trouble to follow the link and digest the content (or find the full article they cut-and-pasted from) - you inevitably find that they simply haven’t understood what they’ve posted or linked to. In many cases, they clearly haven’t even read it, let alone understood it.<\/p>\n

Plagiarism, simple copying, or verbatim answers often provide a useful insight into what – and how - people think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I did a trackback using my web traffic data and found a link on someone’s blog (who links to this one) to another blog. Now, I would hope that this blog has maybe inspired a few other people to set one up of their own - whatever walks of life they might come from. But I was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[80,102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-general-related"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t