August 3, 2005

Generation theft

Christian Crumlish

J.D. Lasica posts about a conversation with BlogHer co-organizer about blog plagiarism, and cites a few examples of people plagiarizing newspaper ledes in their blog entries about BlogHer (New Media Musings: Plagiarism in the blogosphere).

How lame!

Also, where's the fun in that?

Posted by xian at August 3, 2005 2:33 PM
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There is also the possibility of a careless post, without paying attention to quotes and correct attribution.

I do think that blogging, as a whole, is self-correcting and extremely critic of its participants, so even slips like these that JD mention won't matter much, or will have a resolution quite soon (As is the case with the Corner).

Posted by: Camilo at August 6, 2005 1:46 PM

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