I have a Google Alert for the phrase "designing for flow" which, as you might imagine, doesn't get used very often, so when I got an alert about it tonight I was intrigued. The summary of the article that was included in the Google Alert email was very familiar.
For some reason someone called Abbas Gandhi had posted my complete A List Apart article without attribution to a Blogger blog called "My Journey as a Designer." The odd thing is that it's one of only two posts on the blog and the first is just lorem ipsum. I'm actually kinda flattered that out of all the fantastic ALA articles published over the years this person chose to steal mine. I posted a comment calling attention to this fact, so I'm not sure if it will be removed by the time people read this, but I thought it was worth mentioning.
Anyway, the moral of the story for all writer/designers is to create Google Alerts for a distinct phrase in each of your articles so you can catch people trying to pass of your writing as their own.
