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By: A Pretty Mess » Blog Archive » Giving Credit Where it’s Due

A Pretty Mess » Blog Archive » Giving Credit Where it’s Due — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 19:04:16 +0000

[...] blogged about this phenomenon recently. If you haven’t read Laurie Ruettimann’s post This is not ‘Nam. (This is HR Blogging.), you [...]

By: Laurie

Laurie — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:51:40 +0000

@hrwench OMG, is writing a blog a passive aggressive endeavor?

By: hrwench

hrwench — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:24:15 +0000

Is giving the benefit of the doubt being passive aggressive towards yourself or the other person?

That is kind of a brain twister.

By: Laurie

Laurie — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:44:38 +0000

@Frank Original ideas are overrated.

@Ontariodude Good tips — be nice to Maren.

@LGeraldine I miss citations, but I try to go back & amend (& apologize). I’m not perfect, but I try not to be derivative.

By: Lady Geraldine

Lady Geraldine — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:31:22 +0000

Well, citing your sources is just good writing practice! If there’s one thing they drilled into my English Lit. brain, it’s “If you’re unsure whether or not it’s common knowledge, CITE YOUR SOURCE!”. I think I got that lecture in every class, every semester, from high school all the way through college. I’m glad that you paid attention, far too many people didn’t!

By: Ontario Emperor

Ontario Emperor — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:54:06 +0000

Laurie,

Did you know that it’s always a good idea to cite your sources, and if you forget to do so, to go back and do it later? Wait…oh dang, I just read that somewhere. Oh, it was here! (Combining multi-feed reading with memory loss is a recipe for disaster.)

A good deal of my sources reside on FriendFeed or in Google Reader, so if I can’t remember where I heard a particular item, I can use the search capabilities in these applications to (hopefully) locate the original source. Normally, I tried to mark (star, share, like) items of interest to make them easier to recall in the future.

And if I can’t find the source, I apologize for not being able to cite the source and move on.

Now let me go check out Maren Hogan…

By: Frank Roche

Frank Roche — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:27:25 +0000

That’s just good, honest journalism. Attribute when you can…and if you synthesize a new idea, even better. My point was more around the echo chamber. That gets droll in a hurry…original ideas and levels of analysis never do.

By: Laurie

Laurie — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 11:52:06 +0000

@frank No, I totally find inspiration from other posts. So many good ideas just floating around and I pick and choose from the bunch and then riff of them. I just try to add a ton of URLs so that people can find the original genesis of my idea.

By: Frank Roche

Frank Roche — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 11:48:46 +0000

Great post…and quite honestly, it’s why I almost never do a derivative piece…you’re like that too, you come up with original ideas. I’m afraid that too much of blogging is “Yeah, what she said” kind of writing. When you think up your own ideas, even if they’re an amalgam of things you’ve read, then they’re yours.