This isn't a full-blown accusation, but let me just put this out there...
I was checking my StatCounter keywords today, and saw that someone did a search for "Chrustin Richardslake," which is my nickname for AI's Chris Richardson. I've never seen the mish-mashed name used elsewhere, so I've been quite proud of my originality. I thought it was pretty cool that someone was doing a search for it, so I checked out the search string to see what results actually came up. (I was hoping that I hadn't inadvertently stolen it from someone else, which would make me less original than I thought!) There were four links - two for my blog and two for the American Idol blog on phillyBurbs.com.
I did a little digging and found that the first mention of Chrustin popped up on phillyBurbs on April 3 in this post. First mention of Chrustin here came two weeks earlier, on March 21. Interesting, eh?
Now, sure, whoever writes for phillyBurbs could've quite possibly been on the same wavelength as me and just happened to come up with the same name. The cynic in me doesn't buy it, though. I mean, if it were really that obvious and popular of a nickname, surely there would be more than four Google hits for it. And I know that writers from bigger blogs scan the web and other, smaller blogs for info, which is fine...as long as they don't steal our best material! There's just something about the way this writer used the name that doesn't compute. "Magistra" didn't fully commit to the joke - referring to Chris as "Chrustin" only once, then continuing on using "Chris." The way it was just randomly thrown in there makes me suspect that it wasn't really his/her own thought.
When I was plagiarized by that moron, Steve Alter, that was rather insignificant. No one read that guy's blog. But phillyBurbs.com? You know how many people probably read that? And here I am, toiling in relative obscurity.
Maybe I wouldn't be so mad if it were Pittsburgh.com jacking my ideas. Well, yes I would. But that wouldn't happen. Pittsburghers have more class. (Yeah, I'm giving it up for the old hometown!)
I'm debating whether or not I should leave a comment over there. What do you all think?
(By the way, I didn't call him "Chrustin" this week, because he was imitating the Rascal Flatts dude, whose name doesn't marry with Chris's as well. And "Chris Rascaldson" is just lame.)
I was checking my StatCounter keywords today, and saw that someone did a search for "Chrustin Richardslake," which is my nickname for AI's Chris Richardson. I've never seen the mish-mashed name used elsewhere, so I've been quite proud of my originality. I thought it was pretty cool that someone was doing a search for it, so I checked out the search string to see what results actually came up. (I was hoping that I hadn't inadvertently stolen it from someone else, which would make me less original than I thought!) There were four links - two for my blog and two for the American Idol blog on phillyBurbs.com.
I did a little digging and found that the first mention of Chrustin popped up on phillyBurbs on April 3 in this post. First mention of Chrustin here came two weeks earlier, on March 21. Interesting, eh?
Now, sure, whoever writes for phillyBurbs could've quite possibly been on the same wavelength as me and just happened to come up with the same name. The cynic in me doesn't buy it, though. I mean, if it were really that obvious and popular of a nickname, surely there would be more than four Google hits for it. And I know that writers from bigger blogs scan the web and other, smaller blogs for info, which is fine...as long as they don't steal our best material! There's just something about the way this writer used the name that doesn't compute. "Magistra" didn't fully commit to the joke - referring to Chris as "Chrustin" only once, then continuing on using "Chris." The way it was just randomly thrown in there makes me suspect that it wasn't really his/her own thought.
When I was plagiarized by that moron, Steve Alter, that was rather insignificant. No one read that guy's blog. But phillyBurbs.com? You know how many people probably read that? And here I am, toiling in relative obscurity.
Maybe I wouldn't be so mad if it were Pittsburgh.com jacking my ideas. Well, yes I would. But that wouldn't happen. Pittsburghers have more class. (Yeah, I'm giving it up for the old hometown!)
I'm debating whether or not I should leave a comment over there. What do you all think?
(By the way, I didn't call him "Chrustin" this week, because he was imitating the Rascal Flatts dude, whose name doesn't marry with Chris's as well. And "Chris Rascaldson" is just lame.)
Comments
Call him out.
It may seem like a small thing, but it's really aggravating. But, if this writer really did come up with that nickname alone, that's wonderful. If that's the case, I think we should both replace those two ditzy girls on "Idol Chat."
And for the record, whenever you have a copyright on something, you are supposed to defend it and challenge theives aggressively, or you could actually lose your copyright. Not that you have the same situation here, but defending the originality of your work is definitely the right thing to do.
If you're going to pay "homage," pay "homage" to the best.
being plagiarized myself many times, i am numb to it because most of the time, the plagiarizers have an even smaller readership than my miniscule one. so i really don't care anymore. :(