Instead of starting the new blogging year with a bang, I started with a whimper! Not posting and not reading other blogs for so long is like letting my brain rot!
A few thoughts: What do you guys like reading about on my blog?
My life?
My house?
My projects?
Other peoples houses?
My rants?
What other blogs do you guys read? What makes a blog a good read to you?
There has been so much talk between bloggers about copying each other and blogger plagiarism etc… that I wanted to give my opinion. Sometimes I write the blog thinking that other bloggers or people who read other blogs are going to read it. Sometimes I write it thinking that even if another blogger wrote about it, I know some of my readers (ie my friends) dont really read other blogs and that they would be interested in that particular idea/image as well… I look at the blog as my own little mini magazine, and I can include anything I feel like including, even if it is boring to some. It doesn’t make me any money so I am free to post as I wish. If a blogger is almost famous or super popular, they have to do a little more work to be original, as they should. Its not that its wrong if they post about something that has been covered ad nauseam, it just eats away at their credibility.
Also, people who dont like that some bloggers snag pictures and TEXT out of design books: Not everybody reads every magazine and every design book. If someone wants to scan some pictures that I have never seen, why not? Just try not to disgust your more knowledgeable readers by pretending you wrote it- correct?
What are your thoughts on bloggers and plagiarism? This isn’t high school after all.
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all of the above? i just love your blog, and your house, and your projects. and… you get the idea.
keep up the good work!
your house.
is what i think.
more of it. we are all fucking peeping toms when u get right down to it.
Ill keep it in mind MFAMB!
yes on your house, projects, and your “taste.” we need to discuss other stuff via email…
anyway, you’ve done an excellent job capturing different styles and it works.
o, and teach me how to do cool things with my iphone too.
So long as everyone is credited where due, bring it on. Copy, paste, post.
As long as we reference where it came from, I don’t see the problem (unless it came from a blogger who has specifically requested you NOT use their material without permission). I think blogging is like any other social endeavor, use common sense and treat others like you want to be treated. Today I found a really cute project on one blog that referenced another one, and when I went there it credited the original blogger who did the project. I don’t think the original blogger minded that so many thought her project was so stinkin’ cute that others are talking about it.
From my viewpoint, since I live overseas and don’t have access to a good library OR magazines in English, I’m THRILLED that I can read/see new stuff via the internet.
Yea I agree with you all about the crediting. I do have tons of pictures with no sources, since I started collecting them before I wrote the blog.
Also, lets say I saw a picture that was originally in a magazine on a blog. I source the blog or the magazine? or both? The blogger probably got it from another blogger! How much does this whole thing matter?