[Air-L] etiquette for reusing or reposting blog posts

Radhika Gajjala radhika at cyberdiva.org
Fri Jul 25 04:50:59 PDT 2008


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some readers?


On Jul 25, 2008, at 7:29 AM, Lois Ann Scheidt wrote:

> Aggregation bring in a very interesting wrinkle to the discussion.   
> They are, in essence, a passive way of appropriating posts, in that  
> the addition of the rss feed to the aggregators cue is initially  
> made by a human being but after that all posts flow without  
> intervention.  In short, it is possible for a blog to be added to an  
> aggregator without the writers knowledge and for their posts to  
> regularly be presented on the aggregation site without the writers  
> knowledge or approval.  Of course, since the initial feed was  
> public, and most aggregation sites clearly attribute the posts to  
> the proper blog the author is cited.  So the real issues become ones  
> of ethics and audience.
>
> As with all of the angles on this discussion...more research is  
> necessary.
>
> Lois Ann Scheidt
>
> Doctoral Student - School of Library and Information Science, Indiana
> University, Bloomington IN USA
>
> Adjunct Instructor - School of Informatics, IUPUI, Indianapolis IN  
> USA and
> IUPUC, Columbus IN USA
>
> Webpage:  http://www.loisscheidt.com
> Blog:  http://www.professional-lurker.com
>
>
> Quoting Robert Cannon <rcannon100 at yahoo.com>:
>
>> People do it all the time.  Look at CIRCLEID as an example.  Most of
>> the posts there are also posted to the individuals blogs.  Different
>> blogs have different audiences - some are more personal - others are
>> clear communities surrounding specific topics of interest.  Sometimes
>> people try out version 1.0 on there personal blog and then post
>> version 2.0 on a community like CIRCLEID
>>
>> I will say this as an aggregator.  I know some people who post 100%
>> of their personal stuff on a collective blog -- after a while of
>> filtering through the duplicate posts, I detect it and drop the
>> personal blog from my aggregation.
>>
>> There is a frequency-to-noise ratio issue.  Duplicates become noise.
>> People will seek to filter the noise if it becomes a problem.
>>
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>> --- On Thu, 7/24/08, Lokman Tsui <lokman.tsui at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> From: Lokman Tsui <lokman.tsui at gmail.com>
>>> Subject: [Air-L] etiquette for reusing or reposting blog posts
>>> To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
>>> Date: Thursday, July 24, 2008, 2:33 PM
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I have been wondering about what the social online norms
>>> are for
>>> reusing or reposting blog posts across different blogs.
>>> Let's say you have a personal blog and also contribute
>>> to a group blog
>>> - under what circumstance would it be okay to reuse a post
>>> you wrote
>>> for one blog for the other blog, assuming the post is
>>> relevant for
>>> both blogs?
>>>
>>> When do you integrally copy the post, and when do you write
>>> a summary
>>> linking to the original post? Are there other ways to deal
>>> with this?
>>> Is this something considered not done at all?
>>>
>>> What are people's experiences and feelings on this?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Lokman
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