Well said. That's why you should also read M. Thomas Eisenstadt, who reports how the main guy that Goeglein ripped off, Jeffrey Hart, himself ripped off Asst. Deputy Secretary of State Thomas Callahan. Hart should have also remembered that the internet is forever.
Thanks for the comment. This mess just gets more sordid. All anyone has to do is rewrite or cite who they are talking about. Laziness at best.
March 4, 2008 at 11:05 AM
It's been said before. Everyone should have picked this up in school. Maybe in the past, before the Internet, you might be tempted to copy a paragraph or a sentence here and there. No more. The Internet is forever, and everything you write is there forever. And it's almost instantly search able. Don't believe me? Read "How my blog started the avalanche that buried presidential aide Tim Goeglein" by Nancy Nall Derringer in Slate today. Here is the link: http://www.slate.com/id/2185657/
I wonder how many people are going to fired ten, twenty years from now for plagiarizing other people's content (...and all the snotty, mean, vicious things they write on their own blogs or while commenting on other people's...). Seriously people, do not copy other people's stuff.
posted by Straight to the Point at 6:09 PM on Mar 3, 2008
"Do Not Copy Other People's Stuff"
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Well said. That's why you should also read M. Thomas Eisenstadt, who reports how the main guy that Goeglein ripped off, Jeffrey Hart, himself ripped off Asst. Deputy Secretary of State Thomas Callahan. Hart should have also remembered that the internet is forever.
March 4, 2008 at 1:45 AM
Thanks for the comment. This mess just gets more sordid. All anyone has to do is rewrite or cite who they are talking about. Laziness at best.
March 4, 2008 at 11:05 AM