Lakbimanews – a sneeze from the past

Lakbimanews English newspaper in Sri Lanka has a history of plagiarising blog content. It would copy text off blogs and use the blogger's handle/name as the "article"'s author - without every mentioning the blog's URL. This made the article appear to be the work of one of the paper's columnists writing under a pen name. …

Lakbimanews blog theft issue update

Its not a topic I want to bring up, but the Lakbimanews web-site has archived its July 8th issue. This means that any URLs linking to pages on the Lakbimanews web-site would bring up totally different content or broken links. So I've updated my links to the Lakbimanews archive pages. I know that quite a …

Lakbima issue- a positive twist: taking the blogosphere to the mainstream?

So much for lasts posts. Just at the craziest time (wedding stuff) in my life, comments are flying in when I have the least time to log in and moderate them. More are landing as I write. So I will be taking off the moderation in order to keep the conversation going. Hopefully I won't …

This is my last blog post

as a single person that is. I'll cease being one in less than 604800 seconds or so (no I'm not pissed off with the whole Lakbima thing 😉 People from 3 continents have already landed. Its the mid year wedding season. I'm not the only one in the Sri Lanka blogosphere getting hitched (all the …

Bloggers and Sri Lanka’s English language media

It seems that last week' s (8th July 2007) English edition of the Lakbimanews paper contained several "articles" created by extracting and editing content from several blogs. My earlier post and Rhythmic Diaspora's cool headed post noted this after we were both tipped off by anonymous. After a rush of comments that I followed up, …