PSA
To paraphrase the lovely Melissa Summers over at Suburban Bliss, it's come to my attention that some people need to be reminded to think their own thoughts and write their own words (Hi,Andrea!)
Don't get me wrong, I love it when somebody likes what I've written enough to talk about it on their own blog. But, when that somebody (hi, Andrea!) tries to pass off an entire post as something she wrote herself, well, that's not cool. In fact, it's plagiarism. And I'm an English teacher; we take plagiarism very seriously, even when it isn't our words that are being stolen.
So, just a friendly reminder: What I write on this site is copyrighted; iVillage owns every single word. And since they pay me good money for them, and since, if you blog yourself you know that sometimes they don't flow all that easily, please, don't steal them.
Enjoy the posts. Talk about them. Link to them. But don't just take them. It's just not cool.
Comments
funny that I had thought it looked very familiar, but thought I was imagining it!!
Hope you are having a better day/week/month. hugs from me and the girls
I'm stunned that someone would do such a thing!! (Also: I couldn't see her post...maybe she locked it after your message...)
PS--I'm sure you must hear this a ton, but I just love your blog! Keep up the great posts!
Oooh, no she did not. Yay copyrights! I would definitely take this as further proof that you are awesome, Kim. Someone wants to be like you! BE you, in fact. Too bad it's illegal. And sad. Happy Valentine's Day Kim...the world loves you! (Haha... :D)
Mannnnnnnnn...I wish she didn't set her profile to private. How did you find out about her?
Is she a cut& paster or another one of those scraping thieves like Bitacle? Mary P reported a new site of scraping thieves recently.
She was a cut and paster. First she denied it, then she claimed she had no idea how it got there (eyeroll), and then she claimed that the site isn't copyrighted--I guess that "all rights reserved" notice at the bottom of the page went right over her head.
If it was a scraper I'd have just let iVillage legal deal with it. But I'll be damned if I'm going to let some 23 year old MySpacer plagiarize me and get away with it.
LOL! We call that "swagger jacking" and when we catch them...all hell breaks loose. ROFL!
