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Plagiarizer Best Practices

If you're going to give a talk at a conference there's certain best practices you might want to follow.

  1. One: develop your own talk and slide deck.
  2. ddmeyer
    I'm in a session with six other people and this guy is ripping off the David Milch / 2.5 Men bit from my TEDx talk word for word. Rough.
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  3. It is possible you will choose not to do this.
  4. Barring that, have a plan for recognizing the guy who you're stealing from so you can react if you see him in the audience. This may not always succeed.
  5. ddmeyer
    It isn't that unusual this plagiarist doesn't recognize me. I'm a few inches tall on YouTube. 6'7" IRL. Plus I'm wearing a gorilla mask.
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  6. One way to better prepare for this possibility is to have some idea who is attending the conference. While you may not be privy to who all the attendees are, there may be some ways to recognize if your source will be at this conference where you're speaking. Like, for example, if they are identified as one of the featured presenters at the conference.
  7. Should you steal, you may want to make some minor edits to the slide deck to partially obfuscate that it's been lifted. You may need to make more than minor changes to accomplish this.
  8. ddmeyer
    Figure I'll email him this photo under the subject line "Not Okay," also cc'd to the conference organizer. http://twitpic.com/8f80dq
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  9. You may also wish to make those edits ones that do not demand quips like "the only edit he made was to remove "lack of perseverance," which is pretty well covered by ripping off someone else's talk."
  10. Another good practice is to lift from someone who has class enough not to respond extremely overtly. Some people lack restraint.
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  12. ddmeyer
    I'm not gonna call him out in front of anybody. But if he puts up a video of a water tank, I'm gonna clobber him.
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  13. Luckily, sometimes being pathetic is enough to get you off the hook.
  14. ddmeyer
    Plus, this plagiarist is wearing a Spongebob Squarepants tie, which I figure is punishment enough.
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