A sud­den spate of out­right pla­gia­rism from blogs by the “more main­stream” or “big­ger” media seems to be pop­ping up in many dis­parate loca­tions. Per­haps we’re enter­ing a new phase of the tran­si­tion, in which the old media believe quot­ing with­out attri­bu­tion is some­how anal­o­gous to link­ing?

I doubt it. I expect the authors and edi­tors who copied are just lazy and rude.

• News​.com copy­ing mus­ings about Google [via We Make Money Not Art]
• A print mag­a­zine lifts the text and illus­tra­tion from a blog entry, again with­out a lick of attribution
• [oth­ers as I remem­ber where I’ve come across them]

Oh, and an amus­ing splog­ger writes:

You can stop your pla­gia­rism search now! We have amal­ga­mated all the really great pla­gia­rism def­i­n­i­tion related infor­ma­tion and arti­cles we could find and posted them here.

[link not provided.…]