Posted by
ryuzaki0
on from the we-prefer-to-say-'borrow' dept.
XiceeX writes "Wired has up a story about HP, as part of a larger drive to figure out how ideas ideas 'infect' large groups of people, scientifically proving what most people already knew: bloggers steal their ideas from other bloggers."
The most-read webloggers aren't necessarily the ones with the most original ideas, say researchers at Hewlett-Packard Labs.
Otherwise know as the 'Slashdupe' syndrome. One site is even know for it's inability to keep stories original within a 24 hour period.
In other news...
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Paul+Crowley
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And another thing:
Wired has up a story about HP, as part of a larger drive to figure out how ideas ideas 'infect' large groups of people, scientifically proving what most people already knew: bloggers steal their ideas from other bloggers.
Is "Today I had Cheetos and talked to Sara" or "I think Imma gonna brush mah teef now" really something worth stealing? C'mon.. most things worth stealing have at least _some_ value..
Current Mood: Thefty
Plagiarize,
Let no one else's work evade your eyes,
Remember why the good Lord made your eyes,
So don't shade your eyes,
But plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize -
Only be sure always to call it, pliz, 'research'.
About how ideas 'infect' large groups of people, scientifically proving what most people already knew: bloggers steal their ideas from other bloggers. I will post them shortly.
Re:Few Original Ideas
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Anonymous Coward
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I do support plagiarism in one area: spelling. Please grab a dictionary and look up plagiarism. It's not spelled plagerism. Thanks.
Sounds more like transient social consciousness
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MooseByte
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OK, I actually read the article and this doesn't sound like "stealing" at all to me. Granted we'd need to see the underlying blogs and topics in question, but let's face it - social awareness of various topics ebb and flow.
Those of you who follow U.S. media may recall "The Summer of the Shark". There was no peak in shark attacks that year. In fact I think it was a below-average year. It just became the socially-focused topic.
Then there's the "everything's now in place" effect. Competing teams coming up with similar vaccines at the same time. Or manned flight.
Just part of the Great Filtered Aquifer of the human experience.
Of course it may well be that humans are just a bunch of damn thieving cheaters.;-)
But...
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Anonymous Coward
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...that is so untrue! I just copied and pasted your "news story" into my blog so I could tell everybody about it and how wrong you are.
Re:Few Original Ideas
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Dun+Malg
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I've found that there are very few original thoughts or ideas, and very few people who come up with them. It isn't a matter of plagerism. It's just that there are only so many viable ideas out there. And the more that are already taken, the harder it is to come up with a new one. If you reach too far just to have an original thought, then you end up a wacko.
Interesting, as I've found that there are very few original thoughts or ideas, and very few people who come up with them. It isn't a matter of plagerism. It's just that there are only so many viable ideas out there. And the more that are already taken, the harder it is to come up with a new one. If you reach too far just to have an original thought, then you end up a wacko.
-- If a job's not worth doing, it's not worth doing right.
"And in related news, it's been discovered that a website called SlashDot links to stories run by other media outlets..."
--
Coming soon to Slashdot: meta-meta-moderation!
The major media determine what's 'news'
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Anonymous Coward
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And we all talk about what we see on the news. The real plagiarism story is about the current weather. I'd like to see an expose uncover this shocking fact.
Re:Self-Pleasure Circuit
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Aliencow
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You mean the "blogosphere" or some other retarded word I think..
If memory serves, a 19th century sociologist by the name of "Darde" posited that out of 100 people, 1 is truly creative and the remaining 99 are echoic.
So I guess we can rule you out of the 1% too?
(Sorry, couldn't resist.);-)
Re:Few Original Ideas
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neelm
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Us web "programmers" have been stealing back and forth the same piece of javascript since 1995...
We call it "code resue" though =)
I'm just going to wait a few days and see what everyone else says about this.
Re:funny and insightful!
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kevlar
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What is the point of blogs though? I thought they were to convey some sense of individuality on the old interweb. Instead, in everyone's rush to be some kind of blog king, blogs are forcing people think and express themselves in the same way. Stealing someone's ideas means you can't or don't come up with your own.
Re:iRank doesn't tell you much...
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AnyNoMouse
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First off, the HP technology is called iRank,
Okay, I have to say this... who came up with that name? Is it something Tarzan says when he stinks?
-- -Redundancy Man strikes again!
From the great man himself.
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CGP314
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The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Slashdot Mirror
And that last story about Microsoft cameras was stolen directly from Yahoo. FP
To understand recursion,
you must first understand recursion.
It's "sharing"
Here's what I do: Bitty Browser & Andromeda
I would have never guessed!
In other news, sixth-graders routinely hand in articles copied verbatim from the World Book Encylopedia as "research papers".
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The most-read webloggers aren't necessarily the ones with the most original ideas, say researchers at Hewlett-Packard Labs.
Otherwise know as the 'Slashdupe' syndrome. One site is even know for it's inability to keep stories original within a 24 hour period.
And another thing:
Wired has up a story about HP, as part of a larger drive to figure out how ideas ideas 'infect' large groups of people, scientifically proving what most people already knew: bloggers steal their ideas from other bloggers.
Xenu loves you!
So that's why all the whiny angsty poetry on blogs looks the same...it IS the same!
/hates whiny teenage blogs
I am a viral sig. Please copy me and help me spread. Thank you.
... is slashdot considered a blog?
If so, its quite well known it links to copyrightten articles all the time.
Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
with four-hundred and eighty-nine quintillion-zillion blogs, how many did they think were going to be original?
Operator, give me the number for 911!
> Of course, this begs the question.
No. It doesn't. Orwell would hate you.
Is "Today I had Cheetos and talked to Sara" or "I think Imma gonna brush mah teef now" really something worth stealing? C'mon.. most things worth stealing have at least _some_ value.. Current Mood: Thefty
You got it all wrong...
when you copy from one person, that's stealing, theft, plagiarism...
when you copy from many different sources, then that's called research...
and if you see me strut, remind me of what left this outlaw torn...
Let no one else's work evade your eyes,
Remember why the good Lord made your eyes,
So don't shade your eyes,
But plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize -
Only be sure always to call it, pliz, 'research'.
Shamelessly researched from a Tom Lehrer song.
I'm Blogging this!
About how ideas 'infect' large groups of people, scientifically proving what most people already knew: bloggers steal their ideas from other bloggers. I will post them shortly.
I do support plagiarism in one area: spelling. Please grab a dictionary and look up plagiarism. It's not spelled plagerism. Thanks.
OK, I actually read the article and this doesn't sound like "stealing" at all to me. Granted we'd need to see the underlying blogs and topics in question, but let's face it - social awareness of various topics ebb and flow.
Those of you who follow U.S. media may recall "The Summer of the Shark". There was no peak in shark attacks that year. In fact I think it was a below-average year. It just became the socially-focused topic.
Then there's the "everything's now in place" effect. Competing teams coming up with similar vaccines at the same time. Or manned flight.
Just part of the Great Filtered Aquifer of the human experience.
Of course it may well be that humans are just a bunch of damn thieving cheaters.
...that is so untrue! I just copied and pasted your "news story" into my blog so I could tell everybody about it and how wrong you are.
Interesting, as I've found that there are very few original thoughts or ideas, and very few people who come up with them. It isn't a matter of plagerism. It's just that there are only so many viable ideas out there. And the more that are already taken, the harder it is to come up with a new one. If you reach too far just to have an original thought, then you end up a wacko.
If a job's not worth doing, it's not worth doing right.
Badger, Badger, Badger, Badger, Badger, Badger, Badger, Badger, Badger, Badger, Badger, Badger, Badger, Badger, Mushroom! Mushroom!
There, I also linked the original.
Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion.
"And in related news, it's been discovered that a website called SlashDot links to stories run by other media outlets..."
Coming soon to Slashdot: meta-meta-moderation!
And we all talk about what we see on the news. The real plagiarism story is about the current weather. I'd like to see an expose uncover this shocking fact.
You mean the "blogosphere" or some other retarded word I think..
In other news, a recent study shows that nine out of ten Popes have been Catholic.
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>there are very few original thoughts or ideas
According to the US patent office, brand new ideas are created every hour by just appending "... on the Internet" to the end of existing ideas.
The surprise isn't how often we make bad choices; the surprise is how seldom they defeat us.
You mean there are other bloggers? I've just been posting the same stuff to all of my dupe accounts.
That's "Mr. Soulless Automaton" to you, Bub.
"bloggers steal their ideas from other bloggers"
Just for that, I'm going to blog this.
_______________________________________
Why is it the annonymous cowards have
the biggest balls?
And that last story about Microsoft cameras was stolen directly from Yahoo. FP
So I guess we can rule you out of the 1% too?
(Sorry, couldn't resist.) ;-)
Us web "programmers" have been stealing back and forth the same piece of javascript since 1995... We call it "code resue" though =)
In other news, Apple's iBlog software now comes with a sticker affixed to it stating "Don't steal blogs" ...
What exactly do you mean by "Don't touch this button?"
Your Grandfather plagiarized that from the author of Ecclesiastes.
How fitting ...
ThisIsAnExampleAccountGL@yahoo.com
I'm just going to wait a few days and see what everyone else says about this.
What is the point of blogs though? I thought they were to convey some sense of individuality on the old interweb. Instead, in everyone's rush to be some kind of blog king, blogs are forcing people think and express themselves in the same way. Stealing someone's ideas means you can't or don't come up with your own.
-Redundancy Man strikes again!
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-Albert Einstein.
This begs the question: Why are you such an uptight twit?
I'm torn... Insightful or Funny?
"I have a good idea why it's hard to verify programs. They're usually wrong." --Manuel Blum, FOCS 94
Actually it's plaugerism, the art of playing "the very rare musical instrument known as the plaug, or plauger."
;-)
See? I didn't plagiarize that, I cited the source.
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