Readin', 'Ritin', and (Publishing) 'Rithmetic
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Readin', 'Ritin', and (Publishing) 'Rithmetic

The meaning behind the math of the bottom line in publishing and the media. For writers, publishers, and bloggers (which are a combination of the two).
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Context Is Credibility

Context Is Credibility | Readin', 'Ritin', and (Publishing) 'Rithmetic | Scoop.it
From www.kitsch-slapped.com - February 4, 2014 6:00 PM
I've written before about the importance of context; and ranted too about "stolen" images used, uncredited etc., at Tumblr and other sites. I've tweeted and posted at Facebook about my hatred of su...
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Between a quarter and a third of everything on the web is copied from somewhere else

Between a quarter and a third of everything on the web is copied from somewhere else | Readin', 'Ritin', and (Publishing) 'Rithmetic | Scoop.it
From qz.com - December 19, 2013 5:44 AM

There’s a lot of junk on the web. There is also a lot of good stuff on the web. And then there is the stuff that’s been lifted from the good and dropped amid the dross—the aggregation, the block-quotes, the straight-off copy-paste jobs.


The extent of that duplication now has a number: according to Matt Cutts, a long time Google search engineer who developed Google’s family-friendly “SafeSearch” filter and who now leads Google’s web spam team, “something like 25% or 30% of the web’s content is duplicate content.”


That’s not necessarily a bad thing. Not all of the duplication is plagiarized or hastily created traffic-seeking junk. Examples of inoffensive duplication include quotes from blogs that link back to the original blog, or the thousands of pages of technical manuals scattered across the web that are updated with small changes but remain largely the same..


Via Jeff Domansky
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25%-30% sometimes seems low; but then again, I do hate to find some splogger with my stuff so my ire may seem to weight those numbers.

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Jeff Domansky's curator insight, December 19, 2013 3:47 AM

Fascinating research and interesting reading for all content producers.
rodrick rajive lal's curator insight, December 19, 2013 4:26 AM
Yes, we have become the copy-paste generation because of the Internet! This, in itself makes it necessary to avoid plagiarism! A number of Universities in the US have disqualified researches that have had plagiarism issues.
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Is Your Content Curation Ethical? A 10-Step Checklist

Is Your Content Curation Ethical? A 10-Step Checklist | Readin', 'Ritin', and (Publishing) 'Rithmetic | Scoop.it
From contentmarketinginstitute.com - November 22, 2013 10:32 PM
Curation is nothing new, but online content curation is still in its early stages. Many content marketers are still unsure about what constitutes ethical content curation. If you're in this group, ...
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Most of this is common sense, really. But I can't drive home enough two of the points:


Properly credit by prominently linking to the original source


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Using quotes only; not the entire article.


Also, inserting your own point of view is great -- however, sometimes there are reasons not to; for example, time constraints which have you quickly offering a link and/or when reiterating is like beating a dead horse.

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