Plagiarism - Part II

Michael Gartenberg | June 25, 2007, 07:54 AM

One of the problems of blogging as an analyst is that you want your work to meaningful enough to have value and at the same time, preserve value for clients. If you err, as I often do, to provide value on the weblog, you leave yourself open to others copying your ideas or thoughts.

I just got emails from three people who saw a quote from another analyst over the weekend (who I know reads my weblog) that sounded to them like something i had said. So they looked and sure enough, the quote was lifted verbatim from a post i had made here. The date of my post and the date of the article with the other quote made it clear which came first. I won't bother providing the links here (I have no reason to embarrass someone in public.) perhaps it was just inadvertent and often people come up with the same ideas (but less often the exact same words to express them)

As I have said in the past, when this issue has occurred (although those circumstances were somewhat different)

"the difference between plagiarism and originality was a bad memory". I'd tell you who said that, but I seem to have forgotten.