Stolen Meme

Just been back there and pinched well ok borrowed one of Ernies old posts Call Me Ishmael - I Mean, Ernie
and borrowed this (don't click the link unless you do want to be going back there)
So my blog topic of the day is: If you were to write a novel, what would you write about?
actually I wanted that link see if it would work here ..it don't dang it grrr
That link brings up blog compose with the title already there ..which I wanted do do here and can't it won't work so we gotta do this another way bit boring I know.
So I want you to write out your thingy, "If I was to write a novel it would be about..." and then grab it's link and post it here in the links section think you can manage that ?

Don't worry about a tag for it I've not thought of one yet ummm maybe "members memes" ?
Two reasons you post in links, one others get to see your page and two yours will be seperate from everyone elses not here with a hundred other links (yeah I'm kidding about hundreds be lucky if we get one)

This entry cross posted to the BA blog on Blogger from Multiply, those of you who read from Blogger and who don't have a Multiply account can post thier link on BA's Blogger

I'm shocked !!

I'm shocked, stunned mortified even
Just found out that the users coming over from MsN to Multiply don't have blogs, they don't even know what one is some of them .. I was like OMG you don't know what a blog is

this is terrible this is the poor, poor things don't have any idea what a blog is

We shall have to teach them what you can do, what a blog is all about and what blogging is

This by the way is a blog, for those of you from MsN .. this is a blog , on the group here we use it for updates and such and for help with blogging it has an editor as you can see I placed a smiley in and can make text bold and italics do all kinds of things in a Blog.

but you aren't sure what blogging is yet though
Well that's what this group is about ... Blogging

and I'm still quite stunned here

this post was cross posted to the BA (Bloggers Anonymous blog on Blogger.com) blog from Multiply

Welcome to those from MsN

Another exodus has arrived, people from MsN this time .. place sure is filling up I can tell you
All of the MsN'ers are members of MsN groups most are still shellshocked over MsN's decision to close groups and of course all are new to Multiply, now remember how it was for us ?
Sat here going OMG how what where why everything is different what do I do help me....
Well it's the same for them
So I would like you all to help them out a little ok and help some of us out too you can join the MsN help group if you would like just to help answer questions maybe you have some yourself about this MsN exodus
Please give a nice welcome to those from MsN and join the MsN help group if you want

oh and I've fixed up the groups theme here as well btw it needed a bit of a re-do

Sad news

Joy (gamblersgal) passed away from a massive stroke on Sept 17th
Joy was our main admin on BA's Y group, a prolific poster and blogger, a wonderful lady who reminded me of my mother

Stay safe Joy you will be missed

Yahoo! Mash is shutting down

From the email I just recieved

Dear Yahoo! Mash member, Thank you for trying out our Mash Beta service. We hope you had fun with it. Please note that we will shut down Mash on September 29, 2008. As a result, your current profile on Mash will no longer be available. We strongly recommend that you return to http://mash.yahoo.com and copy the content that you wish to save onto a separate document. For a list of FAQs, please refer to the Mash Help Page. Thanks for trying out Mash! Matt Warburton Yahoo! Community Manager

question for you

Can you remember anyone making/doing anything to make the blog compose box on 360 bigger?
I vagely remember someone doing it ..sure of it
If it was any one it would have been either Sucka or g00gs

anyone remember that.. anyone got a link or know how?

What is a blomment?

What is a blomment?

A long, long comment that is a full on blog in itself

On 360º of course we were restricted to the amount of characters we could put in a comment (4000)

Here we don’t seem to be restricted at all.

Of course on blog posts it doesn’t really matter how long winded the comment is.

So go ahead blomment all you want because here we aren’t restricted or don’t seem to be anyway.

Has anyone gotten an extremely long winded comment?

Do you yourself do them?

Do you find that the way Multiply works there are more blomments here or less than 360º?

Blogg'in Movies

Lets do something fun

Give us the names of some "Blog Movies"

like this...

Sleepless in Blogattle
The Blog and the Bueatiful
Blogiana Jones and the Temple of Blog

Funny Blog titles

Give us some funny blog titles
As you all know its the title that draws your readers eye and funny will allways get readers, just the title of course the rest doesn't even have to match the title ...which is half the fun

I'll start off with "Don't Click this", "popped off" and "weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee"
allways my favorite .... because you can go "ahhhhh I needed that" in the first few lines


If you've got one (an actual blog to go with the title that is) post the link here too

What is plagiarism?

Plagiarism
is the practice of claiming or implying original authorship of (or incorporating material from) someone else's written or creative work, in whole or in part, into one's own without adequate acknowledgement.

Online plagiarism
Since it is very easy to steal content from the web by simply copying and pasting, the problem of online plagiarism is growing. This phenomenon, also known as content scraping, is affecting both established sites and blogs

How do you make sure that others know you have used someone else’s work?
Link back to the original work give the author some credit it won’t make your post seem less original it will highlight your work as opposed to theirs

If you borrow an idea that someone else has had say “Mary had this idea”
If you copy part of an article say “from this site”
If you re-post an older post of your own say so “re-post from Nov 2006”

It’s always best to put your own ideas, your own thoughts into a blog, poem or short story that you write but if you do have troubles with that at least say where the item is from, its nicer for your readers its nicer to the person who did it in the first place

Just because everyone else copy pastes from somewhere else doesn’t mean its right most times there is a link back or credit given anyway you just haven’t noticed it

Punishments for plagiarism vary from failing a course you are taking too jail time or loosing respect and jobs (plagiarism FAQ)

Now I’m not talking about images here even though they too fall under the same Copywrite umbrella same as music does I’m talking about the written word (images and music are a topic for another blog)

Seeing as we as bloggers aren’t writing a university paper for a final grade we don’t need to have a full page of citations (facts from here part) on the ends of our blogs but we DO need to either link back or say “written by” etc because otherwise its called plagiarizing and that is in the world of blogging not so much stealing but faking it

If you didn’t write it, you know you didn’t write it everyone else knows you didn’t write it SAY SO

Sources – Wilkapedia and the Plagiarism Learning Center