Had no intention to blog today, but the thoughts of me seeing someone recognizing plagiarizing my work made me furious and infuriated. I am going to disclose one of the most shameful acts done by one blogger Jolene. See, I am not going to recognize her work as it was mine afterall, I am not going to have her blog url pinned here.
If you could still recall my merdeka post, written on a faithful Friday, I featured a picture with flag and fireworks plus modifying a quote from Gandhi. The flag was enhanced with the firework background as I thought it better resonance the Merdeka mood. The quote from Gandhi which I modified was given all credit to the great man.
A silly and non-standard copy cat blogger, so shall I refer to as copy blogger, stole my work! I am darn pissed off now. I am not sure if this is a blessing in disguise or what. I try to comfort myself saying “Oh Daniel, people plagiarized your work because they recognized you”. But heck, wouldn’t it be better if that copy blogger would trackback or even mentioned me is she chose to use my work?
To prevent this series of unfortunate event from happening, I have decided to put watermark to good use. From now on all my photos which I took or images which were enhanced by me shall bear my watermark. Phrase which I quoted and most pictures (if not all) which I grabbed from the Internet has always found its source to the owner. This is the proper way to give credit to the original owner.
It is a very bad habit to just ripped off someone’s works. Not only you give others the impression that you have no credibility but also brainless. No credibility in the sense that you take and you don’t give, this world is about give and take, not just taking and receiving. Brainless in the sense that you are running out of creativity juice and you do not think of the consequence that the original author may stumbled upon your blog just to find out you copied his work, in the case of copy blogger Jolene.
Jolene, if you are reading this post, I hope you repent and promised not to do this again. You should read #5 of the Top 5 Mistakes Done by New Bloggers.
Sorry guys, if I made you suffer with me on this beautiful morning. Although I watermarked my picture, should you need the original one you can just send me a message and I am willing to share with you at your request.
PS: Robin always did that when I requested the original pictures from him. He’s such a kind guy.
PS: Jolene has sent me an email to express her regret for what she has done. I know I shouldn’t be that harsh but I was harsh because this is about integrity. Nonetheless, I have accepted her words and hopefully both parties can put this matter to rest. Interestingly, we both have something to learn!
7 comments ↓
So sad… She should put the Url and some announce where she taken all those from…
But we can’t prevent this kind of thing from happening~
Yes, you should put watermarks as I started to do since years ago~
Wah! U so femes mah! I know many bloggers just cut and paste stuff from everywhere and pass it off as their own. Really shameless! But nobody wants to steal from suituapui leh? So kesian! LOL!
oh.. u have hurt her 弱小的心灵 loo..
Just checked her blog 5 minutes. She has erased the entire post completely. BTW, how do you manage to detect the fraud? I’m so amazed… =p
Send her a personal mail, try to talk to her. Don’t give her harsh punishment. =)
BTW, her Alexa ranking is only 7,122,238 and the PR is still 0. So what say you? A friend or a foe?
Just check her site.. man because of you shes getting new visitors
there she wrote
Yours truly,
Jolene,pics and quotes tooken from blogger; Daniel
DSvT » I only watermark pictures which are mine but not those I obtained from the Internet. But then, sometimes I am just too lazy to do that especially when there are a whole lot of things to write.
suituapui » Of cos lah, I am your femes son ma. Like father like son (minus the shape). In this world, many kinds of people exist, we just have to deal with them.
Isaac » Yup. I know that and I have apologize to her for being harsh. We all have something to learn each and everyday. Now, she knows that it is just not so right to “steal” others contents and always remember to give credits to others.
ColourfulWorld » I tried to contact her but then there’s no email address nor chatbox nor contact form for me to reach her. For your information, I have a lot of tracking devices installed here. Haha.
If you have noticed, I try not to track people or let the public knows who visited my blog by discarding programs like MyBlogLog, BlogCatalog and whatsoever. My SiteMeter and Nuffnang is the only thing I use (only accessible by me) to see what is going on in the blogosphere.
I can’t still figure out what is it with the Alexa and PR? It’s not about competition nor promoting others. At the time of posting, all I wanted to do is to voice out what is so not right with people nowadays.
drumsticks » Despite saying bye bye to the blogging world, I am glad you still find the time to drop by. She added the last string after I posted this up. Hehe. I did not know that this would generate traffic to her blog. ==
Hhmmm..
I’m too lazy to watermark my picture too .. by the time I watermark the pic, I think it’s gonna be one mth later for me to put in the posting .. perhaps i should think of putting it ..
I went to her blog.. she just a kid ?? Hhmmm, good thing that she remove the posting .. you got a lot of supporters …
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