I would like to thank Jonathan Bailey for a well written article on ESBNs and their use in the fight against plagiarism. The article can be found at http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/?p=166.
Both ESBNs and PlagiarismToday.com were featured on podcast 41 of TWIT very favorably (http://thisweekintech.com/41). Leo Laporte recognizes the value of ESBNs as a global media identifier and will begin tagging all of his podcasts with ESBN IDs. John C. Dvorak made a comment about plagiarism and whether or not it was a big deal any where other than in schools. I have been told by several Web 2.0 Workgroup authors that they deal with plagiarism concerns frequently on their syndicated blogs. No one wants to see someone else taking credit for their work. Jonathan points out that ESBNs are a simple way to register your content works and receive a unique and timestamped identifier that provides peace of mind and a nonrepudiation factor in securing your intellectual property.
Another ESBN featured podcast was released yesterday by the Chief Security Monkey (http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/security/investigator/). Chief Monkey is the very entertaining Security Investigator columnist for ITToolBox. The Chief discusses the importance of ESBNs in the fight against plagiarism and points out that the Verify ESBN link can be used to check the authenticity of someone’s blog. It’s similar to the SSL certificate verification window that anyone with a web browser to view to verify a security certificate.
While plagiarism will not go away, ESBNs prove to be a useful tool in this fight. I would like to thank Leo Laporte, Jonathan Bailey, and Chief Monkey for their articles/podcasts and for raising the awareness of plagiarism. Keep up the good work!
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