Excessive blockquoting
How much of blockquoting is really fair use, especially when the original work exists on the internet? I’m no journalist, but providing credit by a tiny link for reproducing almost the entire post is, in my opinion, a plagiarism that got-away. I’ve seen some of the very well known bloggers get-away with this kind of thing. There will not be any unmasking here (and please do not ask me), but I guess, you’ll know when you see one.
I also see almost no one practices this: <blockquote cite"">, where cite encloses the permalink of the site referred. That’s one down for accessibility. Too bad folks, time to go back to basics.
ermmmm….should I be worried?
Apr 18, 05 at 22:41Patrix: I should have mentioned ‘and no deducive guessing’ =). No, seriously I do realize that most do it without realizing it in the frenzy of putting forward the information. What happens is that one tends to deny the original author the credit of that link via read-through by one’s readers by using an almost verbatim quote.
While most original authors shrug with the link provided, people that quote them should restrict to the essence and let the original post speak for itself—isn’t this one of the very basic etiquettes of blogging?
Apr 18, 05 at 23:03