On the subject, and etiquette, of reblogging

Very good questions from sharanam:

Recently a book was published by Soren Gordhamer (you can read a bunch of his commentaries at The Huffington Post) called Wisdom 2.0. The first annual Wisdom 2.0 Conference convened just last month and the concept of mindfulness is starting to come into the mainstream of social media dialogue…

I’m quite sure that there have been relevant discussions elsewhere on Tubmlr on this topic, and please point us to the post / thread if you know of any good ones. But now that even WordPress has added features to facilitate re-blogging, and it’s likely to become a very standard 2.0 term even outside of the Tumblr context, I’m curious what people’s thoughts are on the following (please don’t be shy!):

  • Do you think that you should search Tumblr before posting something to make sure someone else hasn’t already posted it?
  • If more than one of the people on your dashboard posts something, do you always provide attribution for both or do you just go to the most recent OR the original poster? Do you even think about it? 
  • Do you think that if someone finds something on another person’s Tumblr that they should always give the original poster credit even if it’s not original content?
  • Do you always provide a reference for quotes/text culled from articles found on the web? (Your answer should probably be consistent with above ;-D )
  • Do you think any of this even matters?

I’ve seen some votes against reblogging (e.g. ‘we will just get lots of the same content everywhere’ and ‘Google will pull you up for duplicate content’). Both arguments are valid, however I always see the same content everywhere with a slightly different spin, it’s usually what most news outlets do isn’t it? copy, paste, amend, publish? Ok, not always, but you get what I meant.

I am a big fan of reblogging. On finding Tumblr, it has been one of the joys of using it. Most of the reblogs I do are diagrams, infographics or photos…not whole pieces of text (erm, apart from this one?!) - if I do reblog a whole article, I try to add my comments on too…add some value - if not, only post it as a link. That’s just sign-posting, not copying.

Attribution, now there is a difficult question…everyone seems to do it differently. I wonder if a sort of Creative Commons for blogging will arise….?

sharanam

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  1. trampoline3n reblogged this from sharanam
  2. anthonybergen answered: Would you say that the brilliance of Dead Presidents is the author’s originality or his physical beauty?
  3. yama-bato answered: the original source of the content is more important than who blogs it first.
  4. ballsmoke reblogged this from digital-diva and added:
    If there is one thing that really irks me about...Tumblr, it’s the flagrant lack of...
  5. dailyrenegade answered: I’m trying to clean up reblog posts and I’m actually torn on how much credit to give, lately I’m using only via, I hope that’s not rude.
  6. fromdimestodollars answered: DD, I really think your answer sums it up perfectly. If you reblog, then add your own thoughts to it as well, add some additional value.:)
  7. chuckrey reblogged this from digital-diva
  8. scoutg answered: i don’t give credit to other bloggers for things they post, unless it’s their original work. i always give credit to the original artist.
  9. cadastrad answered: Give credit the blog where you saw the content AND its creator.And I would say it’s more about being fair than making rules,calamity-physics.
  10. awakeinthedream answered: 4-i always provide source notes 5-it does matter in terms of honoring this beatiful community & the artists/writers that inspire/support us!
  11. awakeinthedream said: 1 - i dont search tumblr for things before i post them because my search for content is in response to some stimulus outside of tumblrworld. 2-i try to reblog original, if i dont, i make sure all the notes remain intact 3-yes give credit to poster
  12. ar3 answered: I think that the original source of the content is more important than who blogs it first. I always care more about direct sourcing.
  13. digital-diva reblogged this from sharanam and added:
    Very good questions from sharanam:...I’ve seen some votes against reblogging (e.g. ‘we...
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