Blog Plagiarism

The weirdest thing happened today, I've just been accused by @philiphodgetts on twitter that my blog post on the new FCP Suite has plagiarised his blog. Apparently he and only he was the person to break that the new FCP would be based on AV Foundation. Of course that means no one else could possibly have an original thought on the matter so let's end the discussion there. Well actually, no.

I lifted the AV Foundation reference right from Apple's developer website for what's new in OS X Lion. It was a complete guess but an educated guess based on iOS and OS X moving forward together. That's what Lion is all about after all, here's what Apple say:

AV Foundation

AV Foundation framework provides essential services for working with time-based audiovisual media. Through an Objective-C interface, you can easily play, examine and compose audiovisual media in your app. An array of powerful classes also make it simple to edit and encode media files. You can even capture audio and video from external devices and manipulate them in realtime.

It's fair to assume that Apple would produce their next gen creative suite on the latest technology at their disposal. Maybe not.

It's rather disturbing that a blog that literally nobody reads and serves primarily for my own amusement would have ridiculous allegations thrust upon it. Fuck me that's sad. You have to LOL.

The mistake I made was to copy a link to @walterbiscardi as he had just posted a link to a blog (http://blogs.computerworld.com/18095/apples_final_cut_will_end_the_flash_wars) about the imminent death of Flash. I absolutely agree with the article and have almost identical views although the computerworld post was much better written. Hodgetts obviously saw this put 2 + 2 together got 10 and went mental.

It's weird what the internet does to people, @philiphodgetts obviously takes himself far too seriously. He has tweeted me several times now seemingly increasingly desperate to say he broke the story about AV Foundation. When someone breaks a story in the real world it means someone has got a scoop and released a known fact before anyone else. @philiphodgetts doesn't appear to know what breaking a story is as the AV Foundation basis for the new FCP Suite is pure guess work by all parties. This is not breaking a story. This is guess work. He guessed before me but has falsely accused me of ripping him off which is just not the case.

Apart from being a suggested follow on twitter I've never come across @philiphodgetts before and never read an article by him before I wrote about the new FCP Suite.

It makes you wonder what the motivation is for all this is, perhaps he feels the need to acknowledged in someway. Quite sad.

The trouble with social media is that it gives idiots and cranks direct access to your brain without filtration. The vast majority of Twitterites seem to be okay but the odd one ruins an otherwise good experience.