The global economy is down and more people lose jobs, luckily the social web has blogging and other writing jobs that allows you to pass time and earn some cash in the process. Sadly however, blogs have also been hit hard with many networks losing so much money they have been forced to cut back on people.
Putting all the negative stuff aside, blogging remains to be a wide open space for those who seek to earn a living through one of the products of the social internet. The only problem, even this form of media isn’t safe from people who are motivated by greed, earning a buck or two out of your hard earned blog posts. From “Copy-Paste” artists to scammers, they use or hijack blogs for their own benefit leaving you out of the equation. Plagiarism as it is called in technical terms has become so bad that our own Splashpress Media has launched it’s own Copyright Service. With support from Plagiarism Today with regards to the specific legalities involved, it hopes to cater to the needs of customers who want to protect their hard-earned reputations.
As a blogger, one expects others to respect the rights of others as it should in any other form of media. The contradiction comes with the concept of the social internet which makes everything available to all but others take it a step further, using the work of others for their own good. I myself have seen my work used as posts by others who fail to even mention you as the source. Protect your rights and work, stop plagiarism by being original, you help others and you help yourself at the same time for a better net for all.