I stumbled this afternoon on an interesting little kerfuffle about the clear and obvious plagiarising of a blog post by @misscoca, another example of just how easy it is to try and appear smarter online. People even set up “auto-plagiarising sites” these days, with varying degrees of success.
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Lauren posted this interesting and well thought out commentary on Foursquare. Quite an excellent piece.
Then a chappy named Brian Buchanan from Georgia in the United States helped himself to her post, changed a few words to suit his location – (Georgia instead of Melbourne) – and posted it.
Douchebag.
Note that he has left in the reference to Coles Supermarkets – completely Australian, and not in Georgia. The phrase “shopping centre” is more of an Australian term also, where Americans would more likely say “shopping mall”.
He also kept the Australian spelling of “centre” rather than “center”. Not very good at plagiarism, are you Brian?
I’ve dropped in a comment for Brian that is “awaiting moderation”, though I’m not expecting it to be approved any time soon!
Sprung Brian – and we’re going to make sure people know about it!