{"id":2467,"date":"2003-06-06T04:09:35","date_gmt":"2003-06-06T11:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2003\/06\/plagiarism-alert\/"},"modified":"2003-06-06T04:09:35","modified_gmt":"2003-06-06T11:09:35","slug":"plagiarism-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/06\/plagiarism-alert\/","title":{"rendered":"Plagiarism alert"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tIn one of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Universe<\/i> books, there’s an observation that the VCR is a time-saving device because it watches TV shows for you; once they’re recorded, you don’t have to bother watching them. Simon Dumenco (“dumenco” means “dumb ass” in some Indo-European languages) rips off this riff and writes a column<\/a> extending the principle to Tivo and blogs:<\/p>\n

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The blog thing, especially, was key. Because I didn’t have to read, in long form, the endless pontificating about Tina’s TV debut either (it’s a bit like not even bothering to read book reviews but still being able to talk about books). In the same way I delegated the task of watching Tina’s show to my TiVo, I delegated the task of forming an opinion about it to media-news blogger Jim Romenesko (www.medianews.org<\/a>) — who, come to think of it, had delegated the task of actually thinking and writing about Tina to the assorted opinion-makers he’d linked to and summarized.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You should at least give credit where it’s due in these cases, as I will to Doc Searls<\/a>, the peace-mongering gynecologist on whose blog I found Dumenco’s article linked.<\/p>\n

And speaking of credit, Professor Randy Barnett<\/a> on Volokh echoes our take on the Times under Raines<\/a>, but he’s clever enough to have thought of it on his own, even if he is handicapped by being a libertarian.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In one of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Universe books, there’s an observation that the VCR is a time-saving device because it watches TV shows for you; once they’re recorded, you don’t have to bother watching them. Simon Dumenco (“dumenco” means “dumb ass” in some Indo-European languages) rips off this riff and writes a column … Continue reading “Plagiarism alert”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-DN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}