Words Fail Me
In my first entry, I wrote about my frustration about someone mentioning my name in their blog in a series of random phrases. That was so useless that it was almost amusing, and I refused to "reward" the blogger with a link to the entry in question.
This morning, I came across something far worse, and I am outraged. Someone has taken one of my articles and apparently run it through an article rewriter before posting it. I know that article rewriting software exists. I understand its purpose is to take your own articles and reword them so you can use them again, although I suspect that less ethical people use it to steal other people’s articles. In this case, however, my article has been completely butchered - only my name is recognizable. You have to see it to believe it.
Here’s my original article at OrganizedArticles.com, and here is how it appears at Your Job Zone.
Is this important enough to be concerned? What is the likelihood of anyone, other than myself, even coming across it? And if they did, would it even reflect on me, since along with the body of the article, they’ve altered my business name and website address? (I did post a comment stating what they have done, with a link to the original article.) Should I bring this to the attention of the other authors whose altered work also appears here?
Is there even a word for this? It’s not plagiarism - that would be if they posted MY article with THEIR name on it. If there isn’t, I’m sure there soon will be, as I’ve no doubt this type of occurrence is more common that we realize and will likely become more and more prevalent. As I said in my original post, however, I really don’t see what benefit they derive from it. There’s not so much as a Google ad on that blog, so I don’t see how they can make money from it, directly or indirectly.
Well, enough of my whining - it’s time to go and make a living!
