14 5 / 2012

Ripping off someone’s blog post is one thing. Modifying it slightly and then crediting the original author after he calls you out is another thing. But giving the author a hard time publicly for bringing it up at all?

TheNextWeb’s CEO is a dick.

unwieldy:

As we were all taught in grade school and college, plagiarism isn’t okay. Even worse is attempting to defend it.

Yesterday, I wrote a short article about The $144,146,165 Button. I did the research via several sources, compiling it together to produce this interesting statistic. It was on the…

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    Wow, way sucky, dude.
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    Joshua sent 1 tweet...The Next Web sent 6. He...be right,...
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    publisher’s response is...what’s wrong. he doesn’t even see that repeating facts without...
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    Ripping off someone’s blog...one thing. Modifying...slightly...
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