{"id":1630,"date":"2010-10-06T17:24:31","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T06:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelwyres.com\/?p=1630"},"modified":"2010-10-06T17:24:31","modified_gmt":"2010-10-06T06:24:31","slug":"way-to-plagiarise-brian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/2010\/10\/way-to-plagiarise-brian\/","title":{"rendered":"Way to Plagiarise Brian!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I stumbled this afternoon on an interesting little kerfuffle about the clear and obvious plagiarising of a blog post by @misscoca<\/a>, another example of just how easy it is to try and appear<\/i> smarter online. People even set up “auto-plagiarising sites<\/a>” these days, with varying degrees of success.<\/p>\n

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Spot The Difference<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/center>\n<\/p>\n

Lauren posted this interesting and well thought out commentary<\/a> on Foursquare<\/a>. Quite an excellent piece.<\/p>\n

Then a chappy named Brian Buchanan<\/a> 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<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Douchebag.<\/p>\n

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Note that he has left in the reference to Coles Supermarkets<\/a> – 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”.<\/p>\n

He also kept the Australian spelling of “centre” rather than “center”. Not very good at plagiarism, are you Brian?<\/p>\n

I’ve dropped in a comment for Brian that is “awaiting moderation”, though I’m not expecting it to be approved any time soon!<\/p>\n

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Sprung Brian – and we’re going to make sure people know about it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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