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Hey, ain't it un-bloggerethical to steal an entry off someone else's?? It's like zapping a page off of someone's personal diary.
I've discussed this with a dear friend before, as I had the same concerns about my own blog. The thing is that a blog is a hybrid. It looks like a diary but it's not.
When you blog, it becomes part of the internet. You cannot post something an d expect it to be like an entry in a closed personal diary. Your thoughts not your own anymore in the bloggerspehere, you have to prepared to lose your anonymity and your individuality. It happens all the time, it's kinda like blogging culture, people link to and are linked all the time.
I do admit that at one point in time, I would be extremely upset if my post appeared unknowest to me somewhere and worse of all, if it was skewed out of porportion. But the nature that you already opened the door, you choose to somewhat advertise your feelings and emotions online. You do have the option of locking up posts or other more private methods of sharing your thoughts (Mailing list like Yahoo Groups, Individual E-mails, IM)
In this case, I believe that I have stated the origin and an excerpt properly as is standard in blogger culture. So I don't believe that I have "stole" the entry.
Of course, just because it's culture doesn't mean that it's the bible or iron-clad. If the author wishes it to be taken down, I shall do so, no questions asked!
Agreed - the internet is free for all. I take it back tt it's stealing - it's referencing.
The irony of the blog phenomenon is that as much as a blogger wishes for his/her blog to be well-visited, the blogger may not appreciate closer scrutiny.
At the heart of a blog (most personal diary-style ones, of course), are both a very personal sense of ownership and a willingness to share one's inner thoughts - both to varying degrees, that it. Gripes, vents, tears, joys & celebrations are all meant to be shared with valued friends. Just look at the regular commenters or the tagboards. Strangers tho welcome to read & comment occasionally are acknowledged, if barely.
All in all, this was a personal entry that should have been left as-is.
Well my point was that if you choose to blog about your thoughts, you have to be steel yourself for people outside your intended audience to read about it. You cannot deny that these, if occassional, people exist and will exist.
The fact that this site was easily googled by me shows just how reachable the blog was, and how such thoughts have become public domain. Even if the author did not intend them to be.
There are few ways of ever preventing it from happening, an exception is of course, the case of acidflask/George Yeo/DSTA. His post was litigated as deflamatory.
Some references to the the case where blogging about workplace issues have caused problems can be found in the links below.
My point is that you cannot continue to deny that your thoughts are no longer your-own per se when thrown onto the internet. The bloggerspehere is changing and ever more so now, under close scrutiny about it's full-montyesque power.
If people continue to see blogging as akin to a diary, they are in going to be rudely shocked. On the other hand, if they are aware that it is, for lack of a better word, a half-diary. A personal journal that you have choosen to leave out in the hallways of life, you, whether on a sub-conscious or conscious level, begin to choose your entries wisely or in other words, you start to censor your own thoughts in your half-diary.
That is the duality of the bloggerspehere as it is now. Mindsets must change if it is to continue in its current form. Who knows what it might evole into next.
You might want to read the following references.
Blogging Poses New Workplace Issues
A Singapore to Behold
Entry has been retracted due to contention of the nature of the post.
Well said, and again, I agree :)
No contention - I simply wish to highlight the blogger's psyche.
mind if i know what is the post about? an MSN message would be good! =P
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