Yesterday's Partially Clips: Anticipatory plagiarism by Rob Cottingham at Noise to Signal, covered in "The half-life of the hashtag", 3/1/2010: Robert Merton: "Anticipatory plagiarism occurs when someone steals your original idea and publishes it a hundred years before you were born". [These may not be his exact words. And we have to translate "years" into … Continue reading Snowmanteaux