I can’t deny this is hilarious, especially the parody lyrics of I Can Be Your Hero by Enrique Iglesias. But at the same time, I think that such people exist in real life outside of You Tube videos. When I don’t deny my self that I personally check the friend’s [...]
More Plagiarism Updates
In response to my previous post about plagiarism, The Pakistani Spectator, to their credit reacted swiftly and firmly, not only removing the plagiarised post but also publicly apologising on their blog and banning the said author, namely Maher Nawaz Khan, from their contributing authors’ list. It takes some one brave to acknowledge their mistakes, so I appreciate the responsibility [...]
Plagiarism In The Pakistani Blogosphere
What is common between the Russian President Vladimir Putin, the famous American deaf and blind author cum activist Helen Keller and lead guitarist of The Beatles, George Harrison? They’ve all been accused of (and in at least two of these cases) successfully proven to have been guilty of plagiarism (see Wikipedia article on Plagiarism for [...]
Humble Pie Shameless Self Promotion
On today’s blogging menu I’ve got some humble pie* ’shameless self promotion’ for you. The blogger Ghazalah Khan at The Pakistani Spectator has been doing a series of interviews with Pakistani bloggers, including the likes of Dr. Awab Alvi, S. A. Shirazi, Owais Mughal, Kashif Aziz and others. I had been reading this series with [...]
Confessions of Weboholics: Internet Addiction Exposed
Did you just notice the time? Has it been five hours (or more!) since you’ve been watching movie clip after movie clip on You Tube? Or may be you were just randomly searching people’s profiles on Facebook or chatting on MSN with old fifth grade companions that you last met more than two decades ago, [...]
