- Posted by liammclennan on February 9, 2009
With the current popularity of blogging the dissemination of
information is mind blowing. There is an enourmous community with very
little friction between them having an idea and publishing it to the
world. And tools like Google index the universe of information and make
it discoverable. It's great, but there is one aspect of blog publishing
that I don't like.
When people take other people's work and pretend it is there own.
A recent example that got under my skin was someone writing a blog post that paraphrased
Fred Brook's brilliant article,
No Silver Bullet.
They even used Brook's own 'essence and accidents' terminology. The
post did not include a single reference to Brooks or his article. I can
only presume that the author hoped no one would notice.
When paraphrasing or quoting someonle else's work, please give credit where credit is due.