Blog Herald recently did a guest series (written by Jonathan Bailey of Plagiarism Today) on tools to help fight plagiarism, focused on how to track-down a plagiarist, get through to their webhost, and expose other sites in their network.

Worth reading, so here are part 1, part 2 and part 3. Nothing too complex really, but nice to have a refresh of the options available. n the subject of plagiarism in general, I'd recommend adding Plagiarism Today to your RSS reader.

The Oiwan Lam case has been all over the Internet, or at least some of the Internet. This case is important if you've got a site hosted in Hong Kong. A good summary of the case is here and there's an MP3 recording with Oiwan Lam being interviewed by the BBC

There's Feedburner, there's Feedsky. Which one should you use?

I've commented before that it's a little silly to stick to one provider without a get-out option: Don't Get Burned. It's much better to take advantage of Feedburner's service via a 302 redirect, so should anything ever happen to Feedburner one can switch RSS providers and users will never have to update their bookmarks, and never notice otherwise.

Ryan, inspired by Kim had the idea of a group writing project: If I Knew Then What I Know Now. Nice idea, should help a few others out; here is my spin, Internet related:

When I saw this story about a virtual economy for China I thought "Uh-huh. That's interesting."

This morning I came across a new map website for Dalian. The company behind it, Aladdin Information and Technology don't just do this for Dalian, however. It's no usual map. It's 3D. Click on a building and a photo of that building appears For every building on the map, which is most of urban Dalian. [I understood some pretty funky maps were being worked on - an acquaintance in a Chinese IT company was working on some kind of walk-through map a while back - not live yet (perhaps never, it all seemed to fizzle)].

Here's a screenshot of the Dalian map:
Virtual Economy for China - Downtown Dalian

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I aggregate content. Other websites aggregate content. The biggest content aggregator I know of in the China-related web is Chinalyst and they're very cool about it. I submitted this site's RSS feed, get summaries posted there, and generate a bit of traffic back to this site. Chinalyst has a huge huge amount of potential in terms of giving back useful information, which it's yet to develop, it's a shame I didn't start it earlier, but it's given me a few other ideas.

Then there's the opposite end of the scale: I just found out about New Chinese, New China who quote entire articles in full and do not link back or attribute them.

The Chinese Internet is not entirely purified. ESWN cover a story of a legal infraction, but a minor one:

A Hong Kong netizen hyperlinks to eight overseas pornographic pictures at a discussion forum and is fined HK$5,000. Meanwhile Google.com.hk links to a much larger number of overseas pornographic pictures and nobody cares. What gives?