UPDATE: I received an email from Popgadget and a linkback has been added to their post.

It really irks me when this happens. I’ve had a few people link to my post about Beer-flavored gummies and they were kind enough to link back to my site. For that, I thank those sites.

Now, Popgadget has blatantly ripped me off. They used the same image (I found that image on ebay – notice the logo in the botton right), the image is the exact same size, they linked to the same site I did, and they essentially just rewrote what I wrote. All of this with no link back to me.

You be the judge:
My original post on 7/19/2006
Popgadget’s post today, 9/1/2006

Am I crazy or is that a blatant rip? You would think that a site as big as Popgadget (ranked 620 on Technorati) would have some ethics. Guess not. I even left a comment asking about this and of course it was moderated.

[tags]geek, theft, popgadget, blog, blogs, blogging[/tags]