Comments on: DEMO v. TechCrunch50 Takes A Nasty Turn With Charges Of Plagiarism

By: perde

perde — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 15:01:08 +0000

good

By: Shoddy Reporting, Invective, and Arrogance. Yeah, I Want Some of That « The Guidewire

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 22:26:02 +0000

[...] fact, a few weeks ago, when Mike Arrington wrote an assumption-based and error-filled story that demanded an apology from the DEMO organization for a comment that was clearly not made by or [...]

By: Jason Nielubowicz

Jason Nielubowicz — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:32:57 +0000

Without proof from the original document, there’s really nothing more to see here. And I should add I’d be highly suspect of any document that appears at this point, short of someone finding a cache of the original page on DEMO’s site somehow. Not to mention the part regarding the 1.893 words; having 1,893 words in common with a post on a similar subject doesn’t raise eyebrows in my book. Now, if they stated there were 151 direct phrases or sentences copied that would be a different story…

By: Clyde Smith

Clyde Smith — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 04:38:41 +0000

This is an odd move but, honestly, things took a nasty turn when you scheduled your event at the same time as there’s and everybody sees that.

By: World IT News » Blog Archive » Pouring Our Heart Into TechCrunch50

World IT News » Blog Archive » Pouring Our Heart Into TechCrunch50 — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 09:50:38 +0000

[...] aside all the drama around the event as the old payola way of putting on conferences goes through its death throes. Instead, let’s focus on the the startup community and the amazing things that it [...]

By: Pouring Our Heart Into TechCrunch50

Pouring Our Heart Into TechCrunch50 — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 09:16:32 +0000

By: BlogReader

BlogReader — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:02:31 +0000

The accusations were made in Demo’s name, from a former partner of the event.

who last worked it in 1996. “In demo’s name”? Huh? Since I posted on techcrunch does that make me speak for techcrunch in “their name”?

By: Tynan on Technology (beta) » Blog Archive » There’s No Business Like Show Business

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:01:33 +0000

[...] of kerosene when a former Demo staffer accused Arrington’s TC50 partner, Jason Calacanis, of plagiarizing a document she allegedly wrote 10 years ago on how to be a "Demo God." Arrington responded by calling Demo a "payola-based [...]

By: armshaq

armshaq — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:13:06 +0000

I just want to wait and see the result

By: Anon

Anon — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 09:04:45 +0000

You are stupid. Please shut up.

By: Guhmshoo

Guhmshoo — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:18:26 +0000

Some perspective please. Who gives a damn!

http://tinyurl.com/69yve9

By: Ed

Ed — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:46:08 +0000

All this bitching and bickering over insignificance aside: HOW MUCH DID DEMO CHARGE FOR ATTENDING THEIR EVENT. The registration fee for TechCrunch50 is $3000 pers person and $145 for students which is HARDLY free, so…

Is this another hype and BS to generated cash?!!!

By: Ghandi

Ghandi — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:55:24 +0000

Ben, the’re Americans. They don’t *learn* to play nicely. They can always invade a country or two instead.

By: Are Special Events In a Bubble?

Are Special Events In a Bubble? — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:21:20 +0000

[...] level as well as a national level. Just yesterday we saw this result in Mike Arrington’s public lashing of DEMO for false [...]

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:57:40 +0000

What… are you kidding me? She sent a private email, Arrington posts it here with an apparent lack of ability to determine the difference between her and DEMO, and you accuse HER of handling it badly?

This whole thing has left an awful taste in my mouth regarding TechCrunch. While there’s an obvious slant towards companies that are either in Silicon Valley, or worship at the Temple of Arrington, I used to have the ability to keep the bile down long enough to read.

While I haven’t done any of my own digging to decide whether or not there was any plagiarism, I couldn’t care less at this point. Once again, we’re subjected to the note passing and sand box bullying you find in schoolyards around the world. Drama at it’s worst.

I hadn’t planned on visiting for either TC50 or DEMO08. However, I would choose the latter having seen this mess.

By: Rotinaj

Rotinaj — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:49:12 +0000

Who’s that? The Mahalo spammer?

By: Ben Kepes

Ben Kepes — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:38:18 +0000

Pretty pathetic really – from both sides. You kids should learn to play together nicely

http://diversit...ren/2008/08/13/

By: livingontheedge

livingontheedge — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:53:59 +0000

Never mind about Debbie McAllister…she’s a real space cadet. She tells stories of being BF with the Rolling Stones and other 60’s bands. She’s full of those kinds of stories that are full of hot air. She finally got her 15 minutes of fame..thanks to Jason.

By: Ctitter

Ctitter — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:46:55 +0000

So you submitted it to TurnItIn??? aaaaaah are you nuts?

OK, so now it’s permanently in the plagiarism database (attributed to you, most likely), so if Jason submits it, it will show up 100% plagiarized.

Consider this:
Imagine a service making their money off the backs of students, and compiling a huge database of (blackmail) material to hold forever.

Imagine a service that approaches schools with this proposition – “We’ve collected millions of academic papers on millions of topics – You can either PAY for our service of ‘protecting’ you from plagiarists, or your students will have access to a database of papers, accessible on the web to the clever student, that we have collected over the years.”

Pay-for-protection scheme? Not a good business model!

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:37:27 +0000

As Dali said, any press is good press, and bad press is better. (sigh) A non-story, but nice reaction. I’m so incensed! I can’t believe it! A caricature of “The Scream” would be a nice editorial cartoon of this entire post/response.

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:52:28 +0000

Calacanis vocab greater. Me prove, see below:

red, green, blue, car, doggie, meatball.

best jason

By: Sam B

Sam B — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:45:13 +0000

If you claim to have been punched in the face but can’t show so much as a bruise, you’ll rightly get laughed out of the police station. (Even a slap will leave a mark.) If you claim to have been plagiarised but can’t produce your original, that’s an equally worthless accusation.

By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:25:07 +0000

…and probably something you should handle internally and not air on your blog, no matter how frustrated you are. Good luck w/ the dirty laundry.

By: irina d

irina d — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:13:59 +0000

Jason’s points aren’t rocket science, but he offers them in a style uniquely his own. Those of us who’ve been in this business long enough know these basic tips. I use these all the time to coach clients in presenting their companies. Does this make me a plagiarist?

Perhaps this is why Ms. McAllister feels she can threaten the “p” word, but seriously, the ideas/pointers are not new. How she handled this quite badly and she does a great disservice to DEMO. The DEMO camp is not making these accusations but someone who used to be associated with them.

By: Osita Oo NWOYE

Osita Oo NWOYE — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:23:35 +0000

This whole bruhaha (noise) about plagiarizing advice is quite amusing. I think it is all a promotional strategy for DEMO (which i have never heard of until TechCrunch promoted them), reminds me of the accusation from Clinton that Obama plagiarized a speech of his adviser (A speech where he quoted Quotes of Kennedy, Martin Luther and others). Simply put, it is all ridiculous but effective. DEMO has succeed in driving traffic to their site. Good One!

Just an observation: I have not heard of any African American/Black founder of a groundbreaking internet company( From Google to Maholo, Facebook to Friendster). As a Nigerian hoping to “conquer” silicon valley someday, I am just hoping there isn’t any bias.

Thank you
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