It is not official of course, but it is a reputed site. Even Matt Cutts, Google's Web Spam Team head have linked to this blog earlier in one of his articles. I do agree with this fact. I am also experiencing the same.
Absolutely true. I wrote only original content till now and my articles (including my watermarked image, which itself is a proof) were copied and is still being copied by content scrapers and they rank above me!
of course it's the official ubergizmo blog. you want GOOGLE to come out and say that they fucked up? stop trolling already