I hear there is an opening at the New York Times. Maybe ‘Dave’ can replace Jayson Blair.

What a dick.

weblog plagiarism is simply beyond my comprehension. i've done a bad job of paraphrasing an entry from funk & wagnall for a 4th grade research paper, but really ... can you not even exude your own personality? i cry moral bankruptcy on this scalawag!

What an asshat and a fuckwit. I left a poopie in his comments box. I've never seen anything like this, it's just ridiculous. Spread the word, Jimbo's the original!

The funny thing is, he put up a ©2003 tag. Dork. You can't copyright what's not yours.

Are you aware that you gave him two "eprops"?

Heh.

All your doing by posting this notice is giving him new material.
I imagine tomorrow he will post explaining that he is being pirated

Maybe he'll even link to you ;)

Amazing.............and yet pathetic. Jimbo, I know what he is doing is wrong but you have to admit the guy has to be really whacked to do something like this. How sad he is to have nothing more in his life than to "steal" someone elses....he is not even making something up. But still, if I were you I would be livid, I know I would. Is there any recourse.....other than continually calling him on his shit?

I'm not sure exactly how this stuff works, but is it possible this guy is not a guy, but one of those automated rip offs that links to porn or something in order to get it's google ranking higher? I wish I could find the link.

maybe he'll get like ass cancer or something.

This happened to another blog I used to frequent. She had a photoblog and the ass stole everything, photos and all! I'm going over to take a peek!

"Dear Xanga, I would like to bring to your attention a clear violation of your Terms Of Use policy..."

Dear Jim,

We should threaten him with the power of the woochata(tm). If he still doesn't stop I will use the powers of Greyskull and HeMan and stuff and make shit happen.

xo,
sabrina_c

I thought about stealing all of your content once, but I’m a meat eating, east coast living, conservative leaning girl who lies around the house. Brushing her hair. It woulda been sorta obvious… So, do these people think that no one is going to notice? Honestly? Do they not understand plagiarism is plagiarism? How empty is one’s head when you steal other people’s thoughts?

"Johnny Depp holding a sword to my head" can be interpreted in so many ways.
=)

Now this makes me furious!

What a moron. Doesn't he know you didn't have a life until about 2 years ago? I digress. Why is this the first I'm hearing of this? Just because I practice medical malpractice doesn't mean we (my firm or friends' firms) can't DO something to make him stop or regret stealing your words...as the little shit will be required by court order to give you credit for his "thoughts." I, of course, vote legal action...the little fucker.

Wow. I can't even wrap my brain around the mental illness it must take to steal an entire site AND COMMENTS.

(P.S. Happy New Year and lots of love.)

Xanga sucks the sweat off a dead donkey's balls.

No, wait... that's not strong enough.

What a waste of skin and teeth. Hope that meathole does the right thing and admits what he's done.

Get used to it.

BALDY.

he's not the first asshat on xanga to pull such garbage, i'm sad to say...once upon a time there was an asshole named "disclaimer" who was stealing from doctorgrosz dot com and even passing doctorgrosz's pictures off as if they were of him...evil bastards, all of them...i'm soooo glad i left xanga years ago...:( you should bring it to the attn of the people who run xanga...they will freeze his acct...

WOW. That is incredible, and very, very pathetic.

Lame, lame, lame. It happened to my friend at chrisafer.com too. I'll do the duty and report it too!

that is weird. I have blantantly stolen your IDEAS but never the verbatim post... well, except that once... and the... oh, never mind! ;)

I'm with the mob : that guy is an asshat who needs ass cancer!

So, is this guy creating a conglomeration of other people's blogs? The one entry seems rather disjointed as though he is using RSS feeds to pick a paragraph from here another from there, etc. And, apparently, you are just perhaps one of those from which he is stealing content.

I'm a little put out that he didn't use any of my comments, seeing as I think they are the best.

This is everything he stole from my site. Most of his other entries come from Jason at Completing the Square or Sarah Brown.

The first link is his "original" entry (complete with date). The second link is mine. Note mine go back weeks, months, sometimes YEARS.

Please stop stealing dude. This is so not cool.

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Stolen but I don’t know from whom.

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This is also mine I just can’t remember where.

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I'm curious Jim, how did you find out?

That "some forever not for better" bit is mine, only he changed CRAYON to MARKER. Jesus.

Plagiarism never surprises me anymore.

I could tell you the story about a graduating (not now - SUCKER) university student who plagiarised (in part) from a grade school website where they had posted student assignments (by 9 year olds!)

... but I won't.

This is so low and cheesy. Why even have a blog if one can't be original? Why not at least credit/attribute properly, would draw more link traffic? No balls or brains of his own...

Would you mind if I wrote about this at a metablog site, Jimbo? Drop me a note when you have a chance, thanks.

Wow. First time poster here, this raised my ire enough to comment. I love reading your blog, this guy is a real arse for doing this. Its like wearing someone else's underwear, it will never be your own. Just pathetic.