There are currently, hmm, too many weblogs for anyone to actually be able to count - which, in many respects, is a great thing - ya know, the old ‘freedom of expression’ thing. Indeed, the sudden increase in those who blog - and those who read blogs - is an excellent indication of how wonderful a medium the Web is - what an excellent tool for publishing, without the need for expensive equipment, expensive software, or exclusive publishers. No longer do the mainstream media monopolies have control. The Web is ours - or is it?

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If you have a blog site, then you’ve probably made the mistake, as I did, of signing your site up on some of those ridiculous blog traffic exchanges whereby you have to waste your time surfing a trillion blogs in order to earn credit points in order to get other people to come across your site while they surf a trillion blogs and on and on and nobody cares as long as they get credit points - phew - enough already - I’m not going to bother with them anymore.

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It has been brought to my attention that some wannabe capitalists are playing Wall Street in some fictitious fantasy crap called “BlogShares” - and someone has actually bought 80% of aussie diary. I tried to find out what it was all about, but the site - http://www.blogshares.com/ - is so bizarre in both concept and navigation that I really couldn’t fathom it - it’s enough to turn a Salvation Army officer to drink (so you can imagine what it’s done to me).

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Got an email from a journalism student at Charles Sturt University, who is writing an article on blogging and bloggers. I guess blogging is a bit of a cultural phenomenon - and is something that is getting a bit of academic attention. I hadn’t really thought that much about it. When I first started aussie diary, it was basically just a place for me to post photos, etc primarily for family; and for Uni stuff - but then, last February, I installed WordPress 1.5 and have been wasting my time “blogging” ever since - and I’ve been discovering some pretty cool blogs as well. Like just this morning, came across this one: Two Bad Dogs - really nice dry wit, check it out.

Anyway, the student asked some questions and these are my answers:

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Plagiarism is a very naughty thing. The Macquarie Dictionary (1997, p. 1639) defines plagiarism as “the appropriation or imitation of another’s ideas and manner of expressing them, as in art, literature, etc., to be passed off as one’s own” - basically pinching someone else’s work without acknowledging the origin. It is sternly frowned upon in academic circles, but is certainly no less a crime in the more open blogging community. Jessica (blog: We got pills for that…) is guilty of plagiarism.

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