Re:Joel Spolsky: The Day My Industry Died
by jmtulloss on Thursday July 23, 2009 @07:39PM
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You used the word "lifted". That's not an accusation of having a similar experience, that's an accusation of plagiarism.
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Both articles are in Joel's voice and credited to Joel. You can't plagiarize yourself. I also used the word "might".
The Founders at Work interview is at http://www.foundersatwork.com/joel-spolksy.html . The Inc article is not a copy and paste, but it triggered the "seen this before" meter.
Plagiarizing himself? Huh? Is that even possible?
Yes, and it's a big fucking deal in academia -- you're bloating your publications / citations / reputation without actually contributing anything.
From your linked article:
"Typically, self-plagiarism is only considered to be a serious ethical issue in settings where a publication is asserted to consist of new material, such as in academic publishing or educational assignments [13]. It does not apply (except in the legal sense) to public-interest texts, such as social, professional, and cultural opinions usually published in newspapers and magazines."