Comments on: [steal] My Social Media Policy

By: Adam

Adam — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:32:37 +0000

Great idea, Melanie. Wasn’t sure if we were using your blog as a commons to tether our respective social media policies to, but I’ve declared my own over at my blog if anyone wants to take a look. Excited to see what guides other people’s social media behavior!

Thanks for drafting this up!

By: Melanie

Melanie — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 21:53:53 +0000

Well that’s a good argument for the promotion of Open Source standards. I looked high and low for some sort of boilerplate I might adapt or develop for the purpose of this post. That’s why I’m asking other people to take my post as a starting point.

By: Prentiss Riddle

Prentiss Riddle — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 19:53:25 +0000

Changing the subject a bit:

Your tweet about stealing policy reminded me of this flap: http://chronicle.com/news/article/4219/a-plagiarized-honor-code-oops

I haven’t followed the details of UTSA’s alleged transgressions, but oddly enough, my instinct is to consider legalistic bullshit fair game. It’s not like a term paper (where attribution is important so you don’t try to take academic credit for work you didn’t do) or monetizable IP (where theft represents potential loss of income) or even the whuffie-driven blogosphere (where theft of content is theft of reputation). It’s just damned institutional boilerplate. BYU should be flattered that somebody even paid enough attention to it to bother stealing it.

Okay, we return you to your previously scheduled program.