Smart Bitches, Trashy Books

My contribution to the Google-bomb is completed.

http://scrapsofme.me/2010/11/04/poor-form-judith-griggs-very-poor-form/

I posted it on my LiveJournal and told them to pass it on!

I’m out in public and not willing to log into my blog from here, but as soon as I get home, I’m giving the lovely Judith Griggs a shout out.

I helped!  :) Put my blog to good use, finally.  Also, my def. isn’t as cool looking as yours. :\

Posted it on my blog :)

You’re already number 3! I feel kind of bad for the Australian motorsports lawyer, though.

Tweeted it!

It’s currently the #2 hit on Google.  It’s worth noting, though, that the #1 hit is for a different person who seems to be a lawyer involved in Formula 1 racing in Australia.

Someone please educate me on how to make “Judith Griggs’ a link in tweetdeck. I’m not finding the magic button.

you can just tweet it like you would anything Kiersten. Just paste the link in and add a comment if you like. I’m @jeffekennedy if you want to just RT mine, too.

Got it. Thanks!

Contributed. It looks like it’s #2 right now.

I know Monica, and she is a wonderful sweet person who totally does not deserve to be messed with. And is totally dangerous to mess with! So yes, ‘Judith Griggs’ is linked on my Live Journal as well. Thank you to all of the Smart Bitches out there.

Dear Ms Griggs,

Taking an article on historical food and “correcting” the spelling of words directly quoted from medieval sources in the original vernacular =/= editing.

Regards,
The SCA

Posted on my blog, so my Romanian readers would know what a bitch Griggs is.

I put the link on my facebook page but I wish it had an asshat picture too.

(I’m so stealing “come down on your ass like a cloud of raging grackle birds”)

It’s up to #2 on Google. :)

another25:  Another 25 links should it get it to #1

I will tweet it when I get home from chemo as I have virtually no idea how to tweet it from the iPad.

Haha!  It’s in the UK now.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2010/nov/04/cooks-source-copyright-complaint

This story is in all Google’s results when you search “cooks source”. And on their page on Facebook there are a lot of messages about this too.

Oops, forgot to tel cookssource.com seems to be down

What a despicable, loathsome bag of hot air she is!  (I was going to call her a bitch, but that would be an insult to the fine ladies at Smart Bitches Trashy Books.) Saw the story passed along by Julie Leto on Facebook, so I passed it along, too.  Thanks for fighting the good fight against plagiarism.

I love it when we use the power of the internet for good!

Number 1 when I searched! That was fast…

college21: Jdith Griggs certainly wouldn’t have made it through 21 days of college if she’s tried this sort of stunt as a student.

Great, I had a typo when I spelled Judith Griggs. Well, I guess she can try to charge me for editing if she sees this.

Done! Still #2.

This has already been written up on the Washington Post.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fasterforward/2010/11/cooks_source_masters_new_recip.html

spamword: voice26
I bet Judith has heard her inner voice 26 times or more saying “What the hell was I thinking?!”

Gotta love this!  When I tried to bring the website up, I got this message (right after a 403 - Forbidden error message):

Sorry, services are temporarily unavailable.
Intuit Websites services have been temporarily interrupted. We would like to assure you that we are making every effort to restore service as quickly as possible. We know how much this inconveniences you and very much appreciate your patience.

Griggs has a Twitter account created four hours ago: http://twitter.com/JudithGriggs

LA Times has picked up the story as well.

I feel bad for this silly woman, but only up to a point.  To have done something so stupid unwittingly for so long would be bad enough, but the arrogance and condescension are really what ticked people off and set off this avalanche of retaliation. 

A little humility goes a long way…

Am putting a post together right now; am including a link to the new “griggs” definition.  This woman definitely needs a number of sound whacks with a cluebat.  :/

Angie

I posted my rant about Judith Griggs

She’s on Twitter, too, so you can bomb her here: http://twitter.com/#!/JudithGriggs

I’m smirking at the comments she’s making, like she’s above it all.  If she was immune to the bashing, she wouldn’t be commenting about how she hopes this “tempest in a teapot” “has all blown over by tomorrow!”

(The first quote is from her personal Twitter account, the second from http://twitter.com/#!/cookssource because I want to give credit where credit is due ... unlike some people.)

Well, I had fun. I posted to Facebook, of course, and received a post in which Ms. Griggs apologizes. Not entirely gracefully, but what the heck? But I was the 160th comment to her apology. Holy cow, what a lovely storm!

Judith Griggs may have just opened herself up to new vistas of pain—apparently she lifted recipes from Martha Stewart as well as a Disney-owned recipe site…

http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=196994196748&topic=23238

Oh, I linked the shit out of this.

Funny Anecdote, I Googled myself, or rather my online handle, and found out a site was hosting the typeface I made without my permission. And the Jackwagon had the gall to remove the readme file from the download as well. So, the site got a stern Email. Here’s to hoping I don’t get Griggs’d. (In fact I shared the previous article as well as my own issue on my blog.)

Captcha: english69. If I wasn’t so raged-filled, I’d make something witty for it.

Y’ALL! Have you checked out the tweets yet? I clicked through the link above

http://twitter.com/JudithGriggs

(Tkx, dreadpiraterachel)

and holy hell. The woman was apparently three sheets to the wind when she created her Twitter account. Unhinged. Completely. There is some good ole fashioned crazy up in there.

In all honesty, without that horrific email I would feel sorry for her. I can totally see how this could happen with deadlines, pressure, etc. Not sayin’ that makes it okay, but I can see it. Monica’s response and request were so mild and so…appropriate that I cannot imagine any other response aside from, “You know what? You’re right and you have been really cool about the whole thing. Should not have happened. Thanks for your understanding and we’ll make it right.”

Problem solved.

Boy did she kick the wrong dog.

Front and center on my Facebook page, girls!

Fear the bitchery!

Spamword list38…..it would be easy to come up with 38 reasons that this NEVER should have happened!

holy cowpies!  go with the google-fu.  on my facebook and the forums i post at…

i predict npr and martha will be on her like white on rice in no time flat.

I had already posted about this on my live journal so I added the google bomb. Glad to do it.

Also-this story has made the NY Times.

By the time the Disney lawyers get done with Ms Griggs she will be lucky if she has a pot left to piss in.

Bet she wishes she had apologized and paid that $130 now….

In other news, I’m related to a very nice lady, also named (unfortunately) Judith Griggs. Poor woman. I’m sure she’s glad to be married to a man with an entirely different last name. I’m sure she’s also glad to be from Texas, not New England, and even MOAR glad not to be that heinously stupid…

Re: everyone talking about the Twitter accounts under JudithGriggs’ name and the magazine’s name, those are trolls.  Major red flag when the account isn’t created until after she becomes infamous, and tweets acknowledging that she is a thief are another.

Tweeted and Facebooked.

So I assume the excerpts, deleted scenes and free reads I post on my website belong to Judith Griggs now? Is that the logic?

Jeez.

I bow before your Google-fu.  I haven’t had this much fun since Bill Napoli!

I’m all for the “shame on you, Judith” brigade.  But some of the comments on FB are going too far.  It’s one thing to call her on her ignorance of copyright law, and her less than polite email response, but it seems to me - and this is just my own humble opinion - that it is turning into a case of cyberbullying by some.  I think once people start to make physical threats, we need to all collectively take a big deep breath and step back a minute.  Is this really what the original intention was?  I dont think so.  Again, this is just my opinion and others can feel free to disagree. :)

It happens a lot, clearly more than you are aware of, especially on college campuses, and the workplace.

Yes, it does happen on college campuses, and when my students do it, they’re given a zero for plagiarism and an invitation to visit the University Honor Council where they can be expelled. 

I’m curious why she wants to lump herself in with this crowd in her own defense.  This would not win many points in Debate 101.

Sad.  That’s my last name.  Blah.

Apparently, this also made the news on some of my nerdy husband’s fav tech sites, they too take issue with the idea that the interwebs is a sampler platter of freeness.

The husband’s analogy: “It’s as if some dude stole your car and when you press charges he gets all pissy since he got it detailed.”

Speaking of husbands, in true plagiaristic asshattery form, I’m also waiting to see if, when someone finally gets Griggs on the phone to do some ‘splainin, she passes the phone to her husband.

Can we start a “Judith Griggs Cockney Rhyming Slang” contest?

‘Chickens and Pigs’
‘Shovels and Digs’
‘Apples and Figs’

Seems the logical next step to me!

Just hit me now…

Cook’s Source.

A title that’s suspiciously like, but not affiliated with, Cook’s Illustrated or Cook’s Country.

Could this be the magazine equivalent of The Asylum?

Yeah, if you look at the “Judith Griggs” twitter account it says:

Yes, I have been a professional magazine editor for three decades. No, I am not the real Judith.

Oh yes, I joined in

!!!

And so it will be done.  I’ll hit up FB tonight.

http://winters-queen.livejournal.com/208475.html

@KJsgrrl

I agree.  While she brought all of this down on herself by responding completely inappropriately, some of the reaction now is just people being mean for it’s own sake. 

She should receive cease and desist orders from all wronged parties, which effectively puts her out of business, but the cold cruelty in some of those posts is frightening.

She’s a foolish, self-important woman whose arrogance and condescension caught up with her, but at what point do her detractors become the thing they claim they hate?

Yes, those with a vested interest in the actual issue should call her out professionally in the appropriate venues, but encouraging all these Facebook people who, at this point, are just piling on because it’s the thing to do in the moment, to harass her and her advertisers is just wrong, IMO. 

I don’t think this behavior helps new writers get their articles published.  At what point does your Facebook following or blogroll become a detriment to your career rather than a plus?  What publisher is going to want to have to deal with what happened to this woman yesterday?  What happens when this happens to a publisher who is being wrongly accused?

To add on to what Sharon said…not saying some of this (okay a great deal of this!) isn’t deserved but I do think there are more civilized ways to handle this. Legal recourses, etc., I have to say I don’t support Google bombs for this reason.  It’s not my job or calling to punish someone on the say so of a blogger who got ticked off, however justified.  There is something rather alarmingly easy about this -almost too easy and I think people feel justified in launching vendettas confident in the protection of being a a popular blogger or Internet presence or whatever. It’s just so easy to cause a great deal of permanent harm to someone without really thinking of the consequences. Of course the publisher should have thought of that before she plagiarized and you could say she brought it on herself.  But what one of the hardest lessons I’ve learned is the following: Because one has had crap thrown at one, one is NOT justified in throwing crap at someone else. Nor are one’s friends, relations or fellow bloggers justified at flinging said crap. Crap is still crap, regardless of who flings.

Apparently there’s a new Cook’s Source page on Facebook because they believe the old one was hacked.  You can see it here:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cooks-Source-Mag/159072764128073?v=wall

I do freelance writing (web content) on a part-time basis and it cracks me up that anyone thinks because it’s on the Internet, it’s public domain - anyone. THIS woman claims three decades of editing experience. And to tell the author that she should pay for the editing was really, really crossing the line. I predict Ms. Griggs will no longer have a career in publishing after this. And while I don’t agree with name-calling or bullying, I absolutely think she has zero excuse for her actions. Her condescending attitude just makes it easy for me not to feel sorry for her in the least.

I guess all the clients that pay me to write content for them are wasting their money. After all, they could just go steal someone else’s work, right?

She plagiarized *Martha Stewart*?  And *Paula Deen*?  And ***Disney***?  Oh man, when their lawyers are done with her, she’ll wish she’d never been born.

Oh Sarah, BTW…since the Internet is public domain, can I steal your blog?  You ‘K with that?

I was confused about how to GoogleBomb/ create a link, so I did the next best thing: I created a definition of Griggs (Sara’s def’n) on urbandictionary.com =D
P.S. I don’t have the link for it yet cause you have to submit it to the editors for them to check the submission.

I don’t think this behavior helps new writers get their articles published.  At what point does your Facebook following or blogroll become a detriment to your career rather than a plus?  What publisher is going to want to have to deal with what happened to this woman yesterday?  What happens when this happens to a publisher who is being wrongly accused?

Ah, there. Now the natural order of the universe is restored. All we need is a few ‘experts’ (preferably with degrees from *real* universities, none of those Open University joke qualifications, thank you) to come in and lecture us that this plagiarism isn’t that big a deal, and the circle of life will be complete.

Unbelievable arrogance of the woman. Their Facebook page is testimony to their self-righteousness. Shall we griggs her?

@Ann Somerville:

I’m addressing the nature of the retaliation, not the validity of the offense.

Yes, what she did is wrong, wrong, wrong, and she ought to be held accountable.

BUT…

What happened was a pile-on of personal attacks by people who aren’t even involved. 

What happens when something like this happens and it’s all based on false information? 

Try to separate the two phenomenon, please.

That I disagree with the method of retaliation does not mean I think what this woman did was remotely excusable at all.

What happened was a pile-on of personal attacks by people who aren’t even involved.

Well yes. This always happens when bad actions are exposed. It’s an inevitable side effect, unfortunately.

What’s also unfortunate is that brazen plagiarists don’t change their behaviour, apologise or remove stolen material without this kind of exposure - or without the attendant pile-on. If plagiarists (a) didn’t plagiarise in the first place and (b) behave with some humility and apology the moment their error is detected, the need to expose and pile-on wouldn’t exist. And it’s not like they can’t imagine the consequences, not unless one have never seen the internet. I can’t believe even Cassie Edwards, since she has enough knowledge to search for material to steal, could have been unaware what would happen if she was caught out.

Basically victims of plagiarism have two weapons - lawyers, which are expensive and not always effective; and publicity, which is cheap and a lot more effective. It’s not pretty, and human nature is what it is, but you have to remember that this is self-inflicted misery. Griggs is stirring the pot egregiously, so complaining about the response to that is a bit naive. And also pointless.

Clearly pointless.  I see that now.

You all might like to know that one of the advertisers in the Cook’s Source magazine who pulled their ads, is using the publicity, positive and negative, to ask people to support a local charity, The Food Bank of Western MA :

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/11/08/turn-lemon-bars-into.html

So if you want to turn your outrage into a force for good, then donate!

Looks like freely using material is rampant. Another blogger had her picture stolen from her website and printed in a journal. http://chickensintheroad.com/living/open-letter-to-dave-belanger/#comment-98710