At Path, above all we believe in empowering simple design, quality craftsmanship, and creative freedom.
To that tune we host hackathons once a month where we hack on anything we want. The only rule is: don’t work on what you normally work on. This practice was pioneered at Facebook. We borrowed…
Is Johann Hari a copy-pasting churnalist?
Orwell Prize winning hack Johann Hari has some explaining to do. After reading a recent blog post detailing how he seems to have plagiarised large parts of his interview with Antonio Negri I thought I’d have a closer look at his work.
As a test I picked a recent interview of Hari’s at random and went through his quotes, doing a basic check for plagiarism. The results are pretty damning.
The opening of Yalangbara: Art of the Djang’kawu, December 2010 in the Gallery of First Australians, National Museum of Australia.
Detail of the Great Hall Tapestry (1984–88). Artist: Arthur Boyd (1920–1999). Interpretation and execution: Victorian Tapestry Workshop (est. 1976). Courtesy of Parliament House Art Collection, Department of Parliamentary Services, Canberra, ACT. This image is copyright.
‘Medicine Story’ painted by Uta Uta Tjangala, 1971. More info in National Museum of Australia collection.
