During my nightly newsreader lightning round I came across this post at Pharyngula, which linked to this post at a blog called Making Light.
The ultimate subject is a blog, or former blog, called Embryoyo, only the name of which appears to have been original. The blog is no longer available for viewing, or wasn’t when I tried to go there, but it apparently consisted solely of posts stolen word for word (unattributed) from other blogs. That’s not quite fair, apparently sometimes the fellow changed the titles.
It is really mystifying. What would be the point of doing something like that? There’s not even any money in it. One advantage, I guess, is that it’s easier to repackage other people’s stuff than write your own, but that begs the question. Why write at all, if all you can do is copy?
If nothing else, the guy seemed to have reasonably good taste-he plagiarized some decent stuff. Not great taste though. As near as I can tell he copied nothing from me.
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