Shame On This Full-Time Blogger Wannabe
Aug 25, 2008 Uncategorized
Don’t know what to blog? Have zero knowledge on the niche? Never mind lah, Ctrl + C, then Ctrl + V lah!
I saw this blog, whose owner is currently rather hot ping.sg. It is rather new, just few days old from what I can see, and it’s about money, finance. I thought, wow not bad, nowadays bloggers really diversify into many areas, focus on many niche topics. Being kaypoh, and curious to know how capable this blogger is, I copy whole paragraph of the article and search in Google. Surprise, surprise, surprise!
Let’s see, “FIVE WAYS TO SAVE MONEY”, we can see the paragraph HERE and HERE. Then “5 Hot Tips to Make Money in Real Estate”, we see it HERE. And “12 ways to save petrol and money”, we can see HERE and HERE.
No source quoted at all, no credit given to the original writer, like the owner wrote them all by himself. Shame, shame, shame. This is not the way to be a full time blogger man.
By the way, the owner has put up 4 and 5 AdSense blocks in his blogs. If I’m not wrong, Google only allows 3 right? Anyway wanna expose him to AdSense team?
About The “Localized” NDP 2008 MV
Aug 11, 2008 Fun, Gossips, Singapore, Stupid Stuffs
Someone must be damn relieved now…
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Did Dawn Yang Learn From PM Lee? Is That An Honest Mistake?
Aug 3, 2008 Blogosphere, Funny News, Gossips, Singapore, Stupid Stuffs
I am referring to what Dawn had said in this reports:
Netizens accuse Dawn Yang of plagiarism
Netizens accuse her of plagiarism
Quoted:
“I apologise to all my readers. I didn’t do this intentionally,” she said.
She said that at the time she posted the entries, she didn’t really think citations were necessary.
“It didn’t cross my mind that I was doing something wrong,” she said.
Why it sounds so similar to the famous “This is an honest mistake. Let’s move on.” sentence to me?
Anyway, I feel that it is so lame to “didn’t cross my mind that I was doing something wrong”. If you read, you digest, you rephrase your words/sentences, you write your articles, people may think that you copy the idea, but it is still acceptable by many. But copying word by word? Sentence by sentence? That is so stupid, and kind of insulting the readers.
Tags: copycat, Dawn Yang, honest mistake
I Was Just LOCALISING An Inspirational Idea
Jul 16, 2008 Funny News, Gossips, Singapore, Stupid Stuffs
Producer of NDP 2008 music video, Gloria Chee, said that
she was simply localising an inspirational idea.
And she thinks
it’s a remake of that idea.
The she quoted a famous local copycat movie director as example,
it’s like Jxxx Nxx’s movie is a remake of the Iranian movie “Children of Heaven”.
She added that
her friends, relatives, and the NDP committee also knew that she had adapted the idea from the Japanese ad.
She emphasized that
she didn’t do it with the idea that no one will know. From the production house to her friends and her parents, she never tried to hide the fact that the video is a remake of the Japanese video.
And,
she only gets a honorarium for producing the video.
You can read the news reports by clicking on the following images to enlarge them.
If you don’t know what’s happening, HERE is the details.
Jialat’s thought:
Thank you Gloria. Thanks for teaching me a better, gracious term/replacement of “copycat”. “Localising an inspirational idea”, what a good term! It is even better than the term “recycle of idea”.
But even it is a remake, isn’t it better to have at least a line of credits to give credt to the original creator? I think a line like “Inspired by ad of Japan Children’s Foundation from Japan Ad Council”, or something like that, at the end of the video or on the website, will make people feel much better. Yes, everyone who knows you know that it is a remake. Point is, before this “copycat issue” was blew up, who the hell in the public know who the fxxx “Gloria Chee” is? The committee knew it, but they never informed the public 1st.
Anyway, creativity nowadays is cheap. So students out there, if your teachers accuse you of “copy” your friends’, classmates’ homeworks, just tell your teachers that “you are localising an inspirational idea”.
Jack Neo is not alone.
Tags: copycat, Gloria Chee, NDP 2008, Singapore
So, NDP 2008 Trailer’s Idea Copied From This Japan TV Commercial…
Jul 15, 2008 Fun, Singapore, Stupid Stuffs
So, this Japan children foundation TV commercial is what DANIEL is talking about. The 2 really look similar in a few parts. Could it be COINCIDENT?
The Japan children foundation
Singapore NDP 2008
What do you think?
Tags: copycat, Japan, Singapore, TV commercial
Red Cliff Poster Copied 300 Movie Photo
Jul 12, 2008 Celebrities, Fun, Movie
Those netizens in China are just so capable, and free. By just looking at the 2 posters, I can hardly find any similarity, but they did it!
See anything similar?
OK, let’s get closer.
See it? This is how BIG that part is in the poster…
