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From USAToday.com: http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2007-04-10-couric-plagiarism_N.htm?csp=34

Apparently Katie’s producer was trying to take some shortcuts or something - her video blog from April 4th was plagiarized from an article written by Jeffrey Zaslow.

Here is Zaslow’s original article: http://www.careerjournal.com/columnists/movingon/20070320-movingon.html

CBS has done a good job of getting rid of the video. It’s not on YouTube anymore, and Couric’s site has been updated to reflect the “correction.” I couldn’t find it on Internet Archive Web site, but I did find a cached (the link may not work) version of the original essay (yay, Google!), but the video cannot be played.

The ability to rewrite history, whether it’s a revised blog or something more, is so easy these days. Look at Google Maps. Post-Katrina images were replaced with pre-Katrina images, and, after much protest, Google re-posted the post-Katrina images:

• Sidney Morning Herald article
• More from Search Engine Roundtable

I wonder if Google was trying to do damage control by announcing (yesterday?) the availability of maps from Darfur.

Slides from my Cyber Zed Shed presentation at the ACRL Conference in Baltimore, March 31, 2007, can be viewed by following the link below. John Houser from PALINET interviewed the presenters afterwards… Listen to my interview: http://www.palinet.org/rss/tech-conversations/cyber%20zed%20shed%202.mp3.

Title: Creating a Technical Services Wiki: Improving Communication and Increasing Productivity

Abstract: The Electronic Resources Cataloging Committee (ERCC) at Princeton University Library created an internal wiki in order to improve its effectiveness.  Since its implementation, the ERCC wiki has not only introduced staff to a new technology, it has also reduced the number of committee‑related emails, provided a one‑stop place for drafting and revising policies, helped the committee be more timely in making decisions, and has encouraged more widespread participation among all committee members. This presentation demonstrates the process of setting up a wiki and covers some of the benefits and drawbacks of using a wiki to facilitate group work.

http://jenniferlang.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/acrl2007.ppt