Comments on: If You Blog, Be Original.

By: Blogging, Public Identity and Bad Marketing

Blogging, Public Identity and Bad Marketing — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 23:38:03 +0000

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By: Mario Fantoni

Mario Fantoni — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 00:52:33 +0000

So you really believe that my blog that was supposed to be a verbatim copy of Seth’s? Amazing. Anyway, as they say, there is no bad publicity, just publicity.

By: Simon Chen

Simon Chen — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 23:21:50 +0000

Des, I agree. And I certainly dont buy any of the story that blames the webmaster. Your actions reflect your integrity (offline and online) and if this was allowed to happen, then what else must go on?

By: Des Walsh

Des Walsh — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 23:21:20 +0000

BTW, glad you got to see and talk with my mate Dave. In a world of self-proclaimed “internet gurus”, Dave is the real deal, doing the internet thing longer than most of us and very smartly too.

By: Des Walsh

Des Walsh — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 23:17:40 +0000

It’s certainly an odd way to test a site - a dumb instruction, it seems, rather than one with malicious intent. Better to use nonsense text as printers do. It’s also an object lesson in not relying on “webmasters” (such a quaint term these days) to know the implications of copying and pasting someone else’s work into a blog. A “webmaster” who does not understand and use social media is as useful these days as a buggy whip.

By: David Bullock

David Bullock — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 14:32:50 +0000

The Power Of Blogging is illustrated with this exchange.

People will be known by their works. The internet is no different.

Be orginal and tell the truth. Otherwise people will blog about it.

David Bullock

By: Mario Fantoni

Mario Fantoni — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 04:29:55 +0000

I apologize for the confusion. I would never copy and paste the words of my good friend Seth Godin on my blog. I asked my webmaster to start my blog and to paste a couple of Seth’s postings to test it and he left them there. Anyhow, it is fixed now. Thank you for monitoring.

Mario

PS. Give my regards to David Bullock. He was (and still is) my best student.

By: Simon Chen

Simon Chen — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 01:08:36 +0000

Dave, agreed. And what I find somewhat amazing is that Mario allowed me to leave a comment to his so called original post and obviously hasn’t seen it. Which proves to me that he’s just not serious about blogging. Stealing content for your very first post is no way to start.

By: Dave Taylor

Dave Taylor — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 15:29:34 +0000

No question, there are a lot of lazy bloggers who assume that if they’re in a sufficiently remote universe from the original source, they can copy and paste with impunity. This fails for two reasons, one technical and one ethical: Google can find duplicate content, and penalize them, and even if it can’t, stealing is not a solid way to build a business…