New School Year and Some Other Junk
Well, we had our back to school meeting and I will be getting a regular route when school starts. This means that my health insurance will kick in. Yippee for me! I will have to change doctors but because mine is not on the health plans list. Karen's doctor is and I have gone with Karen for doctor visits in the past and I like her doctor very much so we will both be seeing the same doctor, which is cool.
I don't know which route I'm getting yet but that's okay. It will be the same route everyday instead of never knowing from day to day what route I'll be driving and almost always feeling lost. Even in an area you're familiar with you can feel lost driving an unfamiliar route because you don't know which house to look for and so on. It will be nice to be able to get to know the kids too.
On to the other junk and boy do I mean junk.
A situation has come up that I feel compelled to weigh in on. It regards blogging and the ethics and just plan courtesy thereof.
Before anyone starts screaming that I should mine my own business and leave them out of my posts - the following is my opinion and no real names or user names will be used here.
It is fine to post about a similar topic as seen on someone else's blog, put your own spin on it and get your own circle of readers to chime in on it.
It is not however, okay to flat out copy the post from another blog whether a link is provided or not. Reference the original post so that your readers can post on the original or post your own idea's with a link to the blog that spurred the thought but don't just copy the words and try to make it seem that you have improved upon the original idea in some way.
Firstly - it is unethical (not to mention in violation of copyrights) to copy someone else's work and ideas without permission.
Secondly - it is just plain, out and out, rude. (Especially if you are a person who would hit the roof if another blogger did the same to you.)
Thirdly - It is made still worse an offence when the section of the blog copied includes the words of someone other than the original blogger - let's say for instance the original blogger's spouse. The spouse no doubt agreed to having their words used in the original blog. But did the copy cat blog gain such an agreement from the spouse? I highly doubt it. This is an invasion and a violation.
Fourthly - When the aforementioned spouse is insulted by a commenter on the copy cat blog the copier should (assuming of course that they know the spouse and disagree) defend the spouse rather than waiting around for the original poster to defend their spouse on your blog.
Okay, that's my rant for now.
I don't know which route I'm getting yet but that's okay. It will be the same route everyday instead of never knowing from day to day what route I'll be driving and almost always feeling lost. Even in an area you're familiar with you can feel lost driving an unfamiliar route because you don't know which house to look for and so on. It will be nice to be able to get to know the kids too.
On to the other junk and boy do I mean junk.
A situation has come up that I feel compelled to weigh in on. It regards blogging and the ethics and just plan courtesy thereof.
Before anyone starts screaming that I should mine my own business and leave them out of my posts - the following is my opinion and no real names or user names will be used here.
It is fine to post about a similar topic as seen on someone else's blog, put your own spin on it and get your own circle of readers to chime in on it.
It is not however, okay to flat out copy the post from another blog whether a link is provided or not. Reference the original post so that your readers can post on the original or post your own idea's with a link to the blog that spurred the thought but don't just copy the words and try to make it seem that you have improved upon the original idea in some way.
Firstly - it is unethical (not to mention in violation of copyrights) to copy someone else's work and ideas without permission.
Secondly - it is just plain, out and out, rude. (Especially if you are a person who would hit the roof if another blogger did the same to you.)
Thirdly - It is made still worse an offence when the section of the blog copied includes the words of someone other than the original blogger - let's say for instance the original blogger's spouse. The spouse no doubt agreed to having their words used in the original blog. But did the copy cat blog gain such an agreement from the spouse? I highly doubt it. This is an invasion and a violation.
Fourthly - When the aforementioned spouse is insulted by a commenter on the copy cat blog the copier should (assuming of course that they know the spouse and disagree) defend the spouse rather than waiting around for the original poster to defend their spouse on your blog.
Okay, that's my rant for now.
posted by Amanda | 5:37 PM
1 Comments:
Agreed, Amanda! <3
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