Blogging Done Wrong!

Well...this article's first sentence was fun...

"Too many blogs these days just feature commentary on someone else’s content and links to it."

Sure, guilty as charged.

I mean, who wants to come up with their own original content?

Or who has the time to do it (if you aren't a full time paid reporter)?

After all, it isn't like stories aren't scooped on blogs, like this one, first and the papers then pick it up and run with it, with absolutely no credit given to the blog who scooped it and with the writer then passing the story off as something he/she came up with first.

I guess the phone calls I would receive from reporters clarifying what was written down here didn't really happen...

Or I guess that some of the pictures (or campaign hit pieces) that showed up on the newspapers didn't come directly from this site...

And it isn't like the Daily Pilot/LA Times doesn't check this site, as well as other sites like mine, ON A DAILY BASIS looking for starts to their own stories.

Now, my little blog is NOTHING compared to this one or this one...and I'm sure my posts haven't been poached nearly as many times as theirs, but it still happens...

...and always happens to "...feature commentary on someone else's content"

But usually without links to the original site and credit to the blogger who scooped it.