Interesting to note that exactly a month ago today, thenextweb pointed out a far less egregious or even obvious offense: http://thenextweb.com/media/2012/04/15

Interesting to note that exactly a month ago today, thenextweb pointed out a far less egregious or even obvious offense: http://thenextweb.com/media/2012/04/15/netflix-amazon-apple-its-this-weeks-media-news-in-review/ http://thenextweb.com/media/2012/04/15/netflix-amazon-apple-... "And finally… Nobody likes plagiarism, but an interesting nugget emerged this week. Poynter reported on a Fast Company blogger who said that he meant to steal from someone else when he was accused of plagiarism. Author Josh Linkner was busted for stealing the opening lines of a blog post by Chris Dixon. Now, Linkner did respond on Twitter and moves were made to amend the ‘mistake’, but the comment he posted to explain/justify the non-attributed use of someone else’s text sounded a little…schoolboy-ish – he said a friend had sent him the excerpt. So let’s assume a friend did send him the excerpt…why wasn’t it attributed to him? We’ll let you decide what really happened…"