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Wired Editor Steals Content for Book About How Content Should be Free
Gawker: valleywag —
... has been caught lifting huge chunks out of Wikipedia for his book Free. The irony speaks for itself. But it's worth noting that the Wired editor's excuses are disconcertingly clichéd. ...
Wired Editor Steals Content for Book About How Content Should be Free
Valleywag —
... has been caught lifting huge chunks out of Wikipedia for his book Free. The irony speaks for itself. But it's worth noting that the Wired editor's excuses are disconcertingly clichéd. ...
Wired Editor Steals Content for Book Saying Content Should be Free
Gawker: valleywag —
... has been caught lifting huge chunks out of Wikipedia for his book Free. The irony speaks for itself. But it's worth noting that the Wired editor's excuses are disconcertingly clichéd. ...
Wired Editor Steals Content for Book Saying Content Should be Free
Valleywag —
... has been caught lifting huge chunks out of Wikipedia for his book Free. The irony speaks for itself. But it's worth noting that the Wired editor's excuses are disconcertingly clichéd. ...
Chris Anderson Lifted Wikipedia Passages for "Free"
Fast Company - Technology —
The Virginia Quarterly Review took a close look at Wired editor Chris Anderson's upcoming book Free, and discovered that entire passages appear to match entries in Wikipedia verbatim. Says reviewer Waldo Jaquith:
"... [A]fter a cursory investigation, after I checked by hand several dozen suspect passages in the whole of the 274-page book. This was not an exhaustive search, since I don’t have access to an electronic version of the book. Most of the passages, but not all, come from Wikipedia." (Emphasis mine.)
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Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk —
... everywhere he can. But some have questioned whether he's taking the title a little too literally, after the Virginia Review Quarterly found that he'd lifted large sections from Wikipedia entries. Anderson has responded, saying it the citations were removed in an editing rush. ...
Roundup: Wired editor accused of plagiarism, NYT to charge for mobile news and more
VentureBeat —
... Chris Anderson: Plagiarizer — Wired editor Chris Anderson has been accused of lifting about a dozen passages verbatim from uncredited sources in his new book “Free: The Future of a Radical Price” by the Virginia Quarterly Review. Here’s the publication’s case. ...
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Wired editor accused of plagiarizing Web sources for 'free' book
Betanews —
... Waldo Jaquith, writing for the Virginia Quarterly Review, was reading through a preview copy of Chris Anderson's upcoming Free: The Future of a Radical Price when he noticed that a passage sounded familiar, and then another, and then another. He eventually located several dozen passages in the 274-page book that appear to have been lifted directly and without attribution from Web sources -- Wikipedia mostly, but there were others. ...
Ouch! ‘Free’ author Chris Anderson accused of ripping off passages from Wikipedia
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home —
Chris Anderson, author of The Long Tail and a forthcoming book called Free: The Future of a Racial Price, allegedly ripped off passages from Wikipedia.
“We have discovered almost a dozen passages that are reproduced nearly verbatim from uncredited sources,” reports the Virginia Quarterly Review after working from an advance reading copy.
Unfair guilty by association ahead?
Fairly or unfairly, If the charges are true, will this set back the "long tail” philosophy as ...
Wired Editor Caught Copying And Pasting Wikipedia Into His New Book
Silicon Alley Insider —
Wired Editor Chris Anderson The VQR says Wired editor Chris Anderson copied passages from Wikipedia into his soon-to-be released book Free . They came up with a whole bunch of examples. Here's a particularly damning one, comparing page 37 of Free and Wikipedia contributor ...
The Case Against Chris Anderson
Gawker: valleywag —
... Plagiarism: Anderson has said that, in lifting material off Wikipedia for Free, he simply forgot to convert some footnotes to in-line attributions within the body of the text. But even with attribution, he should have paraphrased the material or, failing that, used quote marks. ...
The Case Against Chris Anderson
Valleywag —
... Plagiarism: Anderson has said that, in lifting material off Wikipedia for Free, he simply forgot to convert some footnotes to in-line attributions within the body of the text. But even with attribution, he should have paraphrased the material or, failing that, used quote marks. ...
Chris Anderson Apologizes For Plagiarizing Wikipedia
Bits —
From our colleagues at Media Decoder: Chris Anderson, the editor of Wired magazine, copied portions of his forthcoming book, “Free: The Future of a Radical Price” from Wikipedia, without attribution. The passages were discovered by a reviewer for the Virginia Quarterly Review, who was reading an advance galley of the book, which is being published by Hyperion Books early next month. The passages, some copied word for word, include references in a section entitled “The First Free Lunch,” as well as segments on usury and the learning curve. “It’s really simple,” Mr. Anderson ...
Bits: Chris Anderson Apologizes For Plagiarizing Wikipedia
NYT > Technology —
From our colleagues at Media Decoder: Chris Anderson, the editor of Wired magazine, copied portions of his forthcoming book, “Free: The Future of a Radical Price” from Wikipedia, without attribution. The passages were discovered by a reviewer for the Virginia Quarterly Review, who was reading an advance galley of the book, which is being published by Hyperion Books early next month. The passages, some copied word for word, include references in a section entitled “The First Free Lunch,” as well as segments on usury and the learning curve. “It’s really simple,” Mr. Anderson ...
Chris Anderson responds to plagiarism allegations around "Free"
Boing Boing —
... editor-in-chief, responded on his blog to a web-tempest that blew up yesterday after Waldo Jaquith at the VQR rightly pointed out that some passages ...
Chris Anderson responds to plagiarism blog-storm over "Free"
Boing Boing —
... editor-in-chief, responded on his blog to a web-tempest that blew up yesterday after Waldo Jaquith at the VQR rightly pointed out that some passages ...
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Wired Editor Cribs From Wikipedia in New Book
Switched —
... One of them, the Virginia Quarterly Review, published an article on June 23 revealing roughly a dozen passages in 'Free' that are uncredited excerpts from other sources, primarily Wikipedia. One particularly blatant example -- discussing the origins of the phrase "there's no such thing as a free lunch" -- reproduced a Wikipedia entry that itself included uncredited quotations from the New York Times. ...
'Free' Apparently Comes at a Price
Internet Evolution: —
... we stop erroneously anthropomorphizing this idea of information, we have a real question: Do people want to give away their content and ideas for free? Maybe they would, in a world where money is as necessary as, say, cotton candy. But in this world, economics dictate that companies and people need to make money to survive. Anderson is no fool, and he knows this quite well, which is why he only believes his theory when it's convenient. For example, he believed it very much when he plagiarized several passages of his book from Wikipedia and other sources . But he didn't ...
