Plagiarism

Post by Smudge » Mon, May 14, 2012, 9:01 PM UTC

ptmx wrote: post #53

zeedotme wrote: post #9

Update: see this comment on HN. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3972875 Zee from TNW here. Someone has to explain to me exactly what we should have done differently here. I honestly have absolutely no idea what we should have done differently here to illustrate an interesting fact with our readers and reference the original source (we did that twice in the article...even with his full name (a screenshot of which…

Here's my impression of the sequence of events, based on the blog post: 1) You post an article which includes several facts that are taken directly from Joshua's article. No credit is given to the original author. 2) Joshua publicly calls you out on this. 3) You quickly edit in a credit and a link to the original article. 4) With the awareness that future readers will see this credit and assume that Joshua is making…

Post by mikeash » Mon, May 14, 2012, 9:04 PM UTC

zeedotme wrote: post #11

petercooper wrote: post #3

The old adage is you can't copyright facts and there was certainly no requirement for TNW to do any "original research" to share these findings. However, when you copy/use facts, you wade into hot water if you also copy the structure and the way those facts were originally expressed. The original TNW article shown here seems to step over that line with a barely masked copy of the original paragraphs. What bothers me…

I'd honestly much rather be brutally honest than go down the artificial PR route.

Post by bradmccarty » Mon, May 14, 2012, 9:05 PM UTC

nikcub wrote: post #114

drewblaisdell wrote: post #79

Update: image credit added after I posted this. Still, the image should be removed, this is copyright infringement. TheNextWeb is infamous for plagiarizing images for that section. Take this article, for example: http://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2011/05/23/stylish-techno... The image at the top of the article is taken from this Dustin Curtis blog post: http://www.dustincurtis.com/press_on.html (the filename of the…

And another[1]: You should credit @dexterous for screenshot used @ http://thenextweb.com/in/2012/05/03/indian-isps-reportedly-blocking-access-to-vimeo-and-some-torrent-sites/ Citation: http://twitpic.com/9gr7y9 https://twitter.com/#!/dexterous/status/198036547830947841 [1] https://twitter.com/#!/dnene/statuses/198122429447548928

Post by chc » Mon, May 14, 2012, 9:06 PM UTC

Mz wrote: post #129

chc wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They're called typos. Everybody makes them — even professional writers. In writing that's intended to make money, they're usually caught in editing. If you yourself write without ever producing a typo, that's nice, but it's not really all that important to the craft of writing — much less to owning a business that employs writers. At any rate, I don't see any reason to expect perfect prose in an informal context like…

Unfortunately, in this case, the typos reinforce the idea this person is fundamentally disrespectful. Given that his comments here are part of a PR campaign, he should be taking more care with them in order to make the right impression. I go by Michele -- with one L. It is my actual middle name. People routinely misspell it with two L's. Sometimes they realize it and apologize for the error. I have found that how som…

Post by kprobst » Mon, May 14, 2012, 9:07 PM UTC

zeedotme wrote: post #28

Braasch wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The author should have put quotes around the paragraphs that were blatantly copy and only slightly tweaked to show it came directly from the piece and wasn't written by Harrison. Oh, and your Twitter response was laughably immature to me.

that I can appreciate, but to come out and call it "plagiarism" publicly although we couldn't have done more to reference him...is absurd to me. Feels like this guy is trolling every single one of us here - myself included - to get a reaction.