Add it Up Contest – The Scores Thus Far…

Out of a potential 590 points that one could have earned in the first week of BenSpark’s August Add it up Contest the highest point total for a contestant is 200points. There are three contestants in the running for the top prize of a free Flickr Pro or Zooomr Pro Account plus $25.00 gift certificate to Kodak Gallery. There are also many other folks who applied but have not earned any additional points.

The Top contestants are
Mo with 200 points
Christine with 190 points
Stephen the Dog with 180 points
Marsha – 5 Points
Jennifer – 5 Points
Laurie – 5 Points
HomeMom3 – 5 Points
SleepyLil – 5 Points
Joana – 5 Points
xerendipity – 5 Points

You can still catch up and be in the running. Here is a way to earn 445 points TODAY.

5 Points – Enter the Contest – Leave a comment on BenSpark’s August Add it up Contest post
100 Points – Become a PAD Host (And you get a permanent link to your blog on my sidebar.)
50 Points – Sign up for FuelMYBlog (Let me know by leaving me a comment with your fuel address.)
50 Points – Write post about the contest
50 Points – Subscribe to the BenSpark Uberfeed.
40 Points – Watch and comment on all four Wired Kayaker videos. (10 pts each)
40 Points – Review each of my blogs on Blog Catalog (10 pts each)
10 Points – Vote for my blog at Blog interviewer. (10 pts per day, must leave comment each day)
10 Points – Comment on Photo-A-Day #848 & #849 Posts
10 Points – Leave a comment on Photo-A-Day #848 & #849 on Buzznet
10 Points – Leave a comment on Photo-A-Day #848 & #849 on Flickr
50 Points – Leave a comment on Bonus Photo-A-Day #848b, #848c, #848d, #848e, #848f, #848g, #848h & #849b on Flickr.
20 Points – Leave a comment on Photos “Smiling Eyes” and “Afternoon Sail” on Zooomr

So you can see that if you started today you would not be out of the running to win this contest. And if you suggest another way to earn points and I use it then you earn yourself 10 additional bonus points for each suggestion I use. Don’t delay Enter Today (Leave a comment on the BenSpark’s August Add it up Contest post to get started.)

Drop this image on your blog with a link to the contest and get 25 Bonus Points. Today Only.

BenSpark’s August Add it up Contest
Link to https://benspark.com/additup.html


* Now, if I missed any points that you should have for things like being a PAD host, being on Fuel and whatnot please let me know.

It amazes me…

It amazes me how advanced technology continues to become. I have learned of a program online that can check for plagiarism. This is some amazing software technology that allows both students and teachers to check work online against publications of many different types be they hard or soft printed.

This is how it works. Students or professors can submit their document to http://www.iPlagiarismCheck.com/. That document is checked against both online and offline publications, texts, blogs, PDF files, books, articles and journals. The software resides online and users do not need to download anything. They simply upload their document, and many file types are allowed. Users can upload many different formats including: Word, PDF, RTF, HTML, Post Script and plain text.

For instant safe and secure plagiarism checks take a look at iPlagiarismCheck.com – Click here to visit us today!

The iPlagiarism software instantly goes to work and returns a report and as little as 2-3 minutes. The report starts with a “Matching Index”, and this is a meter of how close in nature the uploaded document is to other documents. The Matching index serves at a warning sign that can instantly alert the user to potential plagiarism. The Matching index is found in the Report information section of the report. This is an area that contains the information needed to identify the submitted document. Users can also decide to save, print or e-mail the completed report.

The body of the report shows a list of suspected sources as well as links to those sources so that you can do a visual comparison of your own. You can use the Source Highlighting area to expand the information from the sources where the document may have been plagiarized. The next section is the actual manuscript text of the uploaded document. In this section you can see the areas where the text may have been plagiarized and you can compare the uploaded document text with the potentional source from which it may have been plagiarized. This part of the report is interactive because the user can see the possibly plagiarized text, click it and open up the Source Comparison window. This window shows the user a percentage of similarity between the uploaded document and the source document that was discovered during the comparison search to generate the overall report.

So who benefits from this type of software. Well, first of all the individual who did the plagiarizing. That is right, because getting caught plagiarizing can be a wake up call for that individual and it can also identify if that person has any learning deficiencies. Concerned teachers can benefit to make sure that the students that they are teaching are living up to their potential and not cheating to get by. We live in an information age and access to information all over the Internet and in magazines, and other written publications is all around us and readily and easily available. The temptation to copy and paste from a blog or website is too great and being able to detect plagiarisms will help not only the professors but also the students.

The pricing for this software is very reasonable and there are many different levels of price point for many different needs, like the student, the professor or the casual/occasional writer.