Navigating the blogging waters

The download squad just discovered it: Pirates infest the ever expanding blogging ocean.

By pirates, they mean bloggers who merely cut and paste information previously onto another blog and pretent the writing is their own.

In other words, bloggers plagiarize other bloggers.

Information management has become a much more complicated affair in the recent history of the Internet. On the one hand, information is at one's fingertips. I can barely remember the ante-diluvian time where one had to start finding information from the scratches of books: today, books are the last ---- but ever so important --- resort to finding information. On the other hand, it is also much easier and tempting to copy information.





Questions of authorship, copyright, and intellectual honesty pose real dilemmas, but let's all attempt to render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's.



(Thanks, Mr Uderzo).