I was looking forward to the current issue of the German newsweekly
Der Spiegel to see the article for which they had contacted me for a comment about plagiarism in schools. The plagiarism topic usually comes up in August when there is nothing else to report on, something I always find amusing.
Looking at the title page, however, I was not amused. I had so enjoyed Nicholas Carr's article in the July
Atlantic Monthly called "
Is Google making us stupid?", and Atlantic had had a great cover for this. Here Google was using the same cover for its August 11, 2008 issue - just translated into German!
Der Spiegel,
August 11, 2008
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Atlantic Monthly,
July/August 2008
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Ouch. Deep down in the article, Spiegel does refer to Carr's article in the Atlantic. But I can't find an explanation for why they lifted the design of the cover. I wrote a letter to the editor - we'll see if there is an answer next week.
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