My blog has been ransacked!
I know I am possessive by nature. They say its a Scorpion trait. But this time its has nothing to do with Linda Goodman.
The culprit is here. This person whose profile display says "Recruitment Executive" has done a cold blooded cut and paste of my post "Why Retention is Always Tomorrow's task" in his blog here, exactly three days after I posted it. No links, no credits - either to my own posts, or to the articles I had linked to in mine. Everything, even the title has been copied - as if the blogger has said it all himself! Needless to say, I am shocked!
And how did I discover this? Through this tool - in which I initially typed in my URL just for a lark! Thanks Shilpa - for blogging about this.
So readers...you know what you have to do next right?
And to my dear Ctrl C Ctrl V friend - This world is a very small place, much smaller than you can imagine. And you say you are in the recruiting profession? You should know better than anyone else - what goes around, comes around!
The culprit is here. This person whose profile display says "Recruitment Executive" has done a cold blooded cut and paste of my post "Why Retention is Always Tomorrow's task" in his blog here, exactly three days after I posted it. No links, no credits - either to my own posts, or to the articles I had linked to in mine. Everything, even the title has been copied - as if the blogger has said it all himself! Needless to say, I am shocked!
And how did I discover this? Through this tool - in which I initially typed in my URL just for a lark! Thanks Shilpa - for blogging about this.
So readers...you know what you have to do next right?
And to my dear Ctrl C Ctrl V friend - This world is a very small place, much smaller than you can imagine. And you say you are in the recruiting profession? You should know better than anyone else - what goes around, comes around!
posted by Anuradha at
6:05 AM
9 Comments:
Really glad that you found and exposed the thief!! I left him a comment to let him know his game his up:)
Thanks Anuradha for linking to my post. Please spread the word as much as you can. Let's teach the scum a lesson they won't forget.
By
Shilpa Bhatnagar, at Wednesday, 19 April, 2006
It's not only you. Just use the same tool (http://copyscape.com) and pass his URL.
Everything is a copy paste on his blog.
By
An Ideal Boy, at Thursday, 20 April, 2006
I blogged about this here:
http://amitken.wordpress.com/2006/04/22/49/
such a shame. you keep going anuradha.
By
Anonymous, at Friday, 21 April, 2006
nice exposee
By
Ankur, at Friday, 21 April, 2006
"This world is a very small place, much smaller than you can imagine"
Indeed so...
I almost stumbled across your blog via Amitken's after finding the name Anuradha Ganapathy a little too familiar!
Realised that you were one of the people my girlfriend had worked with (and talked about a lot too) during her stint with a Financial services company about a year or so back.
And in fact this becomes even more of a coincidence when you realise that we were just talking about you joining the same company she now works for!
Dont know if you would remember her now...but I guess we shall know in time!
Shame on that copycat though!
By
Anonymous, at Sunday, 23 April, 2006
Nice work.
The culprit has taken the post down! Google cache should have a copy, though. I tried to get hold of it, but couldn't. Perhaps it's too recent for Google to have cached it.
By
Abi, at Tuesday, 25 April, 2006
thyethe plagiarist has deleted the post but the cache is always there:
http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:QsyK5Om_bhIJ:ipian.blogspot.com/2006/04/why-retention-is-always-tomorrows-task.html+&hl=en&gl=in&ct=clnk&cd=1
By
Anonymous, at Thursday, 27 April, 2006
helps a lot to know there is a tool like that. Plagarism like this - one can still do something about - at the least one can shame the person into withdrawing. It is more difficult to track such acts when people lift your ideas and paraphrase those. I recently discovered an acquaintance whose post was a combination of two of my blog posts. Even the title was lifted. The tool does not spot these things.
And since you work in the area of HR - how does one deal with a problem that is prevelant in many organizations - when someone else takes credit for another's ideas and the system instead of putting a check on such matters perpetrates it?
By
Reshma Bachwani, at Friday, 21 July, 2006
hey anu ! i have 'dum marao'd that guy on a comment in his post.
check merawalla blog :www.worldofindia.blogspot.com
it's written by someone whom u know very well btw from IMDR : ))
By
Anonymous, at Friday, 11 August, 2006
Post a Comment
<< Home