“This blog” == “the iPhone blog” (nee “Phone Different”). Thanks for the link!

The Internet is a veritable petri dish for zeitgeist. And, hey, if popular website is going to be “inspired”, better by me than someone else. You can copy a creation; you can’t copy creativity. Eventually you gotta come to the source. (Conciliatory traffic, however, is much appreciated.)

Blogs and the attribution dilemma » mathewingram.com/work |

In the interest of balance, I emailed Ars founder Ken Fisher to ask him for a comment on the allegations, and he said that in the case of IPDemocracy, it was a simple mistake in which “the link got removed accidentally in the editing phase,” that it was fixed as quickly as possible and that there was “no intent to deceive.” As for MG Siegler’s post, he said that Siegler wasn’t the only blog to make the comparison between the iPhone and the game of Risk (this blog also did) and that therefore he didn’t deserve a link. In any case, he said, Ars didn’t see Siegler’s post and wrote its own version at about the same time (the site said it was published later because editors were busy).