Ars Technica: Still Excelling at C-O-P-Y-C-A-T Journalism

Some of you may recall my beef with Ars Technica back in May. Basically, I called them out for taking ideas for posts without giving any sort of attribution. While most people were in general agreement about this being a pattern of shady practice by the site, others wanted more proof from me.Proof is a tricky thing when it comes to ideas because you cannot know what goes on in someone else's head. So instead we have to rely on circumstantial evidence for something like this. This week we got some more.On Thursday, the New York Times Bits blog wrote a post entitled "Hasbro Notches Triple Word Score Against Scrabulous With 'Lawsuit'" When my colleague Eric alerted me to it, we both agreed that it was a brilliant title. It was one of those "Damn, wish I thought of that" moments. It would appear that Ars may have had a similar... [read full story]