Obviously the Fast Company blogger (Josh Linker) should have cited (at the least!) Chris Dixon. And his explanation doesn't really hold water: "A friend of mine

Obviously the Fast Company blogger (Josh Linker) should have cited (at the least!) Chris Dixon. And his explanation doesn't really hold water: "A friend of mine sent me that excerpt and I had no idea it was yours or anyone else's so I didn't attribute it when I wrote my post." But, speaking as a former reporter, it's a fallacy to tar every medium (or even "old media") for the f-up of a Fast Company blogger. The responsibility belongs to that writer and publication; other outlets do not bear collective guilt for a competitor's screwup. See http://xkcd.com/385/ http://xkcd.com/385/ -- the same argument properly applies to generalizations about newsgathering organizations (or in this case, blogs hosted by magazines started in the first dot-com era).