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10 April 2003: "The Agonist affair"

Okay, I'm sure you must have heard by now that Sean-Paul Kelley, alias the Agonist, was discovered to be filling his blog with material plagiarised from some commercial intelligence firm called StratFor. I'm not going to go into it, but just in case you weren't already aware, here are some links summing it up:

Article: "Noted War Blogger Cops to Copying" from Wired
Article: "Ethics of War Blogging" from the Washington Post's tech section, Filter
Article: "The Great Blogging Ethics Debate", also from Filter
Commentary: Ken Layne on 07-Apr-2003 and 08-Apr-2003
Commentary: Meryl Yourish on 08-Apr-2003 and 10-Apr-2003
Commentary: Letter from Gotham on 08-Apr-2003
Commentary: Colby Cosh on 07-Apr-2003 and later that same day

Well, I bet I could achieve that kind of output as well if I just copied stuff from The Economist. Boy, what some people will do for more traffic. In the spirit of disclosure, by the way, average traffic on this page has been between 100 and 150 unique visits a day for the past week or so. Hey, I write for a select audience!

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