E-books on Memory Cards

I love when people take something popular and branch off in a new, innovative direction. Entrepreneurship makes me feel like the human race is actually capable of so much more than we already do; it gives me hope. Granted, this idea needs some work to actually be feasible and worth it, especially because it means going backward a bit from digital to tangible. But I'm imagining those singing greeting cards but with an e-book inside them. Wouldn't that be awesome?

Check out this demo for e-books in memory cards.

Plagiarizing My Own Ideas

plagiarism [pley-juh-rahyz, -jee-uh-rahyz]

an act or instance of using or closely imitating the language and thoughts of another author without authorization and the representation of that author's work as one's own, as by not crediting the original author


according to dictionary.com

According to that definition I can not plagiarize myself. But other people (and especially colleges) say you can by submitting the same work twice. But what about re-using an idea? If I type brand new words involving the same theme, is that plagiarism?

I have loads of unfinished novels in my drawer (computer files in my case but drawer sounds better). Some of them have terrible writing, some of them have good writing, some of them have great ideas. And I always have this feeling of doing something bad when I re-use some of my old work in new pieces, even if that old work hasn't seen anything but the dark wood it is surrounded by.

This feeling is probably because of how harshly it was pounded into my head to NOT PLAGIARIZE. In college they didn't even trust us to tell the truth; they made us submit all papers to turnitin.com, a website that checks the work for plagiarism against all of the internets.

So what do you think...is it plagiarism to copy your own work if it's unpublished? Should I relax and not think that the FBI is going to bust down my door if I hit ctrl+c ctrl+v?

Word of the Week is Retiring

Happy Monday (if you can say that about such a day). Word of the Week is officially retiring. It's been going on for over a year and has lost its spark. I will replace it with something, but I wanted to see if any of you had any ideas. I would still like to feature etsy sellers, but it doesn't have to be that. Just some kind of interactive game that you can all play along with.

Any ideas?