Some days, I surf the web and realise there is hardly any fresh and original content that is churned out by some bloggers. If I surf the more popular websites like TechCrunch or Engadget, then browse some of the tech blogs, you realise the stories are somewhat a variant of what is published on the aforementioned sites.

Oftentimes, I feel there has been a death of new content and many just try to hop onto the bandwagon of another site, and harness traffic based on certain keywords and content. Regurgitation of the same is really not very cool, if you ask me.

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I’ve read articles and been inspired to craft a blog post based on it, but with a mash up of my thoughts and that from other sites. That is still original in nature, due to the research that has been put into it and is different from a pseudo-replicated-story. But what we’re seeing these days is somewhat wholesale copying (almost like what every university student used to do), but with changing the sentence structures, so that they are not so easily detected if certain phrases were pasted into Google!

Boy, you almost see a transformation from sentences such as “ImageShack Launches Mediocre TwitPic Alternative” to “Mediocre TwitPic Alternative Launched by TwitPic“!

Perhaps old-school creativity and the passion for writing has been lost. OR, bloggers feel very pressured to deliver article after article and they are already sapped dry. I don’t know about you, but I think I’d prefer to have less frequent articles, but genuine ones that weren’t almost copied wholesale from another site.

Don’t plagiarise, strategise! (Gee, is that a corny quote?)