I’m not going to name names, partially because who cares and partially because I don’t feel obligated to give a ping to someone who has “ripped me off”, so to speak.
A fellow blogger e-mailed me to find out what my source was for a particular post. I told her, and she put it up on her blog. She credited my source and did not mention me. And another blogger recently discussed the same issue on her blog and credited someone else as her source. In my opinion this is rude, but, then again, it’s not their fault if I’m not as relevant to them as they are to me. Sigh.
I really do try to give credit where credit is due. Not only is it important to direct people to other sites that will likely interest and/or provoke them, it is important to link to other like-minded bloggers to support their efforts. One effective way to do this is to embed links to important posts in the body of my posts.
hannah said,
February 13, 2008 at 3:29 pm
couldnt agree more, my nestle post ended up somewhere else a few days later, this blogger knows I read her blog as Ive commented there a few times..
Laura McIntyre said,
February 14, 2008 at 1:26 am
Hi im just newish to your blog and wanted to stop and say hi. Thats terrible someone is doing that, i always try and give credit even if its for something very vague
hannah said,
February 14, 2008 at 2:06 pm
so sorry my comment appeared three times! 1st time commenting on wordpress i think, and because i didnt see it right away i thought it didnt get saved.
James KG said,
February 14, 2008 at 9:09 pm
Aaaaa, like I said, it’s not really a big deal. More it’s just a reminder to myself and to other bloggers that courtesy applies . . .