New York Times: The Cult of Tech Genius, By Shira Ovide
Copying other's work without giving them credit for their ideas is wrong, in my opinion. We should always to be sure to cite our sources. As well, though our ideas may never truly be original there is a satisfaction in knowing that an idea is our own. Strive to find your own ideas, and then inform that with the information that other's work can provide. Shira Ovide makes a valid point in her most recent newsletter: "Can You Copy Your Way to Success" (excerpted below): When you copy, is what you are producing more effective? Interesting to consider! What do you think? ------------- "Can You Copy Your Way to Success" New York Times: The Cult of Tech Genius, By Shira Ovide Microsoft was not the first company to make a visual interface for a desktop computer. Facebook was not the first social network. The iPhone was not the first personal pocket computer. Those were the right products at the right time backed by the right company, with the benefit of a little luck and ruthlessness. It’s easy to mock Facebook for making a copycat of TikTok, the hottest app of the moment. And before that, for making … uh … a different TikTok copycat. And before that, for copying Snapchat’s photo-and-video diaries called Stories. But as I said, copying happens. A lot. The danger is, the company doing the copying can sometimes miss what made the original so good. Some of the early feedback I’ve seen from people trying Facebook’s TikTok copy, Instagram Reels, have pointed out that it isn’t centered around something like TikTok’s “For You Page,” which is a constant scroll of one video after another tailored to your tastes by TikTok’s computer systems. You don’t have to follow people or hashtags to find entertaining videos. The app does all the work. (Yes, a computer system steering you to one video after another can also be dangerous.) The question for Facebook, then, is not whether it copied TikTok — it did — but has it copied TikTok effectively.
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