As you can see, I feel pretty strongly about the subject of this post. New York Times journalist Zachary Kouwe recently got caught swiping stuff from various bloggers without acknowledging them. Even worse, when he got caught he tried to pass it off as a big 'misunderstanding'.
Read about it here:
http://www.mediaite.com/online/nyt-business-reporter-resigns-over-charges-of-plagiarism/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+mediaite%2FClHj+(Mediaite)
And here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/opinion/07pubed.html
And why it just shouldn't have happened here:
http://www.mediaite.com/online/does-the-new-york-times-think-its-above-linking-to-the-blogosphere/
And here, where professional blogger Kate Harding explains her simple, foolproof, step-by-step process for crediting internet sources:
http://kateharding.net/2010/03/09/a-handy-guide-to-not-plagiarizing/
Turns out not plagiarising stuff is really easy! Who'd have thought!
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A good collection of related articles, Ben. Kate Harding shows how easy it is to keep track of other's work.
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