Note: Re-posted due to an accidental deletion
When I woke up this morning, I was greeted with a couple of emails questioning me on a source for an article I wrote for MobileBurn yesterday – Motorola Patents Shocking New Silent Alert System.

It seems as though both Allen from Mobiledia and I had published similar articles at almost the same time. Allen thought that I had sourced his article and published my own without bothering to link back to his. This is understandable, as apparently Allen had scoured the USPTO’s website and found this piece himself – quite a daunting task. The unfortunate thing is that I had this sent to me as a tip before the Mobiledia article was published.

Hence, our two articles were published within nine minutes of each other, with both of us getting inbound links from different websites.

I would like to reaffirm my belief in journalistic integrity. I will never rip off another person’s hard work, as I know I would not want that to happen to me. I will site a source in the article, should there be one, and give credit where credit is due.

I have spoken to Allen, and he is fine with it. From what I can tell though, Allen has been emailing the sites that have linked to MobileBurn and told them that he was my source, and to link to him. As this was not the case, I certainly hope that damage was not done to neither my, nor MobileBurn’s reputation. I understand why Allen did this, so no hard feelings to him, but I hope that no unnecessary damage has been done.

Again, I would like to formally state that all the staff at MobileBurn practice good journalism, and uphold our morals in every way. No Andrew Orlowskis here.