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This is now fixed (was not paying enough attention and it was too early on a Monday).

• scotty79 17y ago
  Surely this can't be sole reason for all occurences of this effect on the interenet (and even in books). ;-)
  • dshah 17y ago
    You're right. That's not the sole reason. The primary reason is that originality is a relatively high bar -- particularly for the Internet. Just look at Twitter. So many tweets are retweets of what someone else said.
    • scotty79 17y ago
      That's not the point. I am not talking about lack of originality. I am talking about failure to notice duplication in short list of supposedly interesting content published by oneself.
      • alain94040 17y ago
        The reason is plain and simple: when you build a list for an audience, it needs to have many bullet points. So you are tempted to use the same fact twice with a slightly different take. "2 things you didn't know about entrepreneurs" sounds less interesting/professional/worth reading that "10 things".