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more about #free more comments → gawkimo: Nobody ever talks about the Upper Midwest-Southern Plains feud. (Sniff.) more » ifstone: Uhhh, no mention of Anderson's little plagiarism problem or the widespread debunking of "The Long Tail" (which could have been a Gladwell book)? The u... more » iplaudius: Both authors are guilty of writing two broadly and conclusively about fields in which they lack requisite expertise. With statistical modeling, the hy... more » urbororr: It's good to see African-American women like Gladwell asserting themselves in the intellectual domain so forcefully. more » abettertomorrow: just to be clear, Malcolm Gladwell is calling someone out for taking a simple concept, re-purposing a bunch of already existing content that in some w... more » T.A.N.: That Wired and The New Yorker are the two money-losingest titles (or even among them) feels so wrong. Does it mean they're not good? Does it mean no o... more » ninety_nine: Wait, neither Andersen nor his reviewer knew that New Orleans has always been colloquially known as the 'Crescent City'? Apparently once information g... more » Tremonius: When I was a boy in the fifties, and listening to AM station WNOE from New Orleans a thousand miles to the southeast, broadcasting from high atop the ... more » MisterHippity: In additoin to being plaigarized, this book must also be horribly written. The writing quality of most Wikipedia articles is terrible. They are not wr... more » Sproing: Victimized by his faith in the Internet. He figured if a topic had already been boiled down to its essence by half the web, why try to distill it furt... more » metropolitan: i'm sorry, but you're missing the point. it's not ironic when someone takes free content and uses it on a book about free content. it's practicing wha... more » Stefanie Kechayas: Actually, I'm doing my masters in new media communications and I regularly use Wikipedia as a reference to find primary sources. Most people don't rea... more » Maura Johnston: oh, it's not so bad. he didn't make MONEY off the book. wait, what? more » cassiemajestic: I use Wikipedia as a source to find other sources. Trust but verify. And I'm a librarian.... more » MrInBetween: Can't decide which is more embarrassing -- failing to cite wikipedia as a source or using wikipedia as a source. more » -
#nerdfight
Condé Nast's Grumpy East Coast-West Coast Feud
Big Ideas Author Malcolm Gladwell, a Manhattanite of the New Yorker, has issued a smackdown review of Free, the book from Big Ideas Author Chris Anderson, a Berkeleyan of San Francisco's Wired. If that's not provocative enough, Gladwell sounds downright grumpy. More » -
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How the Crescent City Revealed Wired's Plagiarizing Editor
How did the Virginia Quarterly Review connect Chris Anderson's book to Wikipedia, thus unraveling a plagiarism scandal? A strange use of parentheses. More » -
#books
Wired Editor Steals Content for Book About How Content Should be Free
Chris Anderson 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. More » -
#free
Google, No Longer the Land of the Free
The accountants have taken over the Googleplex, once a hotbed of amiably unprofitable innovation. The notion that ads would pay the way for everything has been dropped — and "fee" is replacing "free." More »
