A well respected web site MacTalk facilitates discussion about the Apple Mac market. Visitors to the site have accused Moses of reading their site, stealing their scoops and not giving credit back to the original writer of the story.
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"Give us the fXXXing credit for it", one of the MacTalk podcasters writes. "It's stealing if you don't give credit". "It's not fair". "We just want a link" they said. When Moses tries to defend himself one contributor to the site wrote.
"If you think we are making you out to be" a plagiarist, then you don't understand the definition of the word. When you use information, without attributing the source that's plagiarism.
That's not interpretation, that's fact. And when does the story "warrant" a link? When it's 95% MacTalk content, or does it have to be 99%? I give you credit for actually showing up to defend yourself, but you can't really expect us to believe you."
This is not the first time that Moses has found himself being slammed for his actions. 16 months ago Moses had a run in with the editor of TechCrunch a local technology blog site run by Paul Montgomery. Under the headline: The Asher Moses Debacle" Montgomery wrote. A reporter from the Sydney Morning Herald named Asher Moses emailed me and said "First off, great site - I'm a regular reader of yours." He then went on to say he's working on a story about the "disclosure scrubbed at TechCrunch debacle."
I took issue with his use of the term "debacle" before actually speaking to me - this tells me everything I need to know about this particular reporters slant on this "story," and basically told him to fuck off"
