Comments on: Does Ars Technica rip every story without credit?

By: EmJee

EmJee — Sun, 18 May 2008 23:49:58 +0000

Um, I just looked at the two articles and unless I’m missing something I’m failing to see the problem. The Ars article is simply about the same topic as the Zheng article and both topics use diagrams from the publicly available patent. Even if the Ars article did not cite Zheng’s name at all it still wouldn’t be a rip-off since the writing is clearly different; the former is clearly not a copy of the latter.

I think you guys need to grab your dictionaries and look up the word “plagiarism” because this, folks, is not it.

By: Bloggers spat over proper attribution — TechWag

Bloggers spat over proper attribution — TechWag — Mon, 12 May 2008 15:53:56 +0000

[...] a link from Paris Lemon points to Duncan Riley?¢‚Ç¨‚Ñ¢s thoughts from 2007 on just how much does Ars Technica rip off story ideas? There is a certain [...]

By: Long Zheng

Long Zheng — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 01:57:24 +0000

Another very questionable article about the same patent. I agree this is public info, but it all appears to come out at the same time.

http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201001485&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_News

By: Gabe

Gabe — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:01:39 +0000

Thanks for pointing this out Duncan. This is good for me know.

By: Alex Watson

Alex Watson — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 15:28:30 +0000

Good spot, although they’ve changed it now and added attribution and a link to LZ’s blog; I just blogged about it for work and made sure there’s a link there

By: Jack

Jack — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 15:18:11 +0000

There is a link back to istartedsomething now. Amazing what the cold gaze of publicity will do for peoples linking ability. I’ve just unsubscribed from ars technica. I can do without that sort of thing.

By: Long Zheng

Long Zheng — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 11:37:01 +0000

Hi Duncan, thanks for writing about this issue. Whilst this particular example is not as bad as the others, there has been at least 2 other counts of miscredited or uncredited reporting from Ars Technica with content that feels extremely similar to mine.

In this example however, somewhere in the middle of the page lies my name and URL, but without a link. Better some than none, but it’s also pretty much useless since I can’t see anyone copying and pasting that text.