Comments on: Are Your Ideas Really Your Own?

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By: Ntarugera FranÃ§ois

Ntarugera FranÃ§ois — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 13:07:09 +0000

Harry:

I had much to say concerning people who are not proud of themselves.

But I ‘m satisfied by your leads”Are your ideas really yours?”. It rang the bell in my mind of the the time I started writing articles. I asked myself the same question:Am I going to be myself while producing an article?

Finally I got the answer. Bridging the information gap by facts. That was my answer.

There the work started and now I can read , write of what I’ve collected from people without labeling out their names. It makes so much joy like seeing your new baby born even raising up maybe damn difficult.

Ntarugera FranÃ§ois

By: James

James — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 13:24:07 +0000

@ Davinder/JoLynn – Yeah, it’s not much fun. It takes very little to leave a link in the post to show where the inspiration came from… maybe people are too focused on trying to be 100% genius original instead of socially conscious!

By: JoLynn Braley

JoLynn Braley — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:29:24 +0000

I just wrote a post yesterday (re: the FDA allowing cloned meat to be sold to consumers) after I read another blog post on the topic. I didn’t hear about that story through Yahoo! or MSN first, I read it on that blog, so I put a link to their post at the end of my article even though my writing style is nothing like the other blogger’s style. It doesn’t matter, I wanted to give credit to where I got the idea for the post.

You know, on the one hand you could feel sorry for people who are copying you because they clearly don’t trust that they have any originality or creativity of their own, they don’t trust that they are “good enough” to stand on their own two feet, but that doesn’t make it right.

I like your way of leaving a comment on their post (hey, I just wrote about that!) and linking to your original. It’s especially a shame though, if the culprit is someone who you’ve come to know.

By: Davinder

Davinder — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:13:28 +0000

Link love is really good. However, there is thin line between inspiration and copying – most don’t know which side they are now!

Giving credit where it is due is very important!

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Five Surefire Ways to Drive Readers Away | PureBlogging — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 08:58:19 +0000

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By: Harry

Harry — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 05:30:34 +0000

Hey Sam, welcome to the blog. I went to look at your blog, and I sure do like the design. Very peaceful.

I think many of the people who copy other people’s work are looking for the shortcut to success and they really don’t care about what they’re doing. They probably don’t even care if someone is copying them either. These scavengers put absolutely no effort into their work. It all comes back to them in the end because they usually don’t last for very long.

By: Sam MacDonald

Sam MacDonald — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:58:17 +0000

I always include links to people’s post that I get inspiration from. Mostly because I know how i’d feel if someone did it to me. As i’ve really started to concentrate on my blog and what I want to accomplish with it i’ve worked hard at always making that effort.

Sam

By: Harry

Harry — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:25:07 +0000

@James: Yes! WAS RUN. It was late. Shaddup. Even geniuses can make mistakes.

By: James

James — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 11:10:24 +0000

@ Joanna – Brilliant. That’s exactly what I would’ve done, because it’s important not to come off looking like a raging flamer. (Though if nothing happened after that comment, I probably would’ve turned into a raging flamer myself.) Another trick you can try is writing a post about it and telling everyone (but that drives traffic to the offending blog, at least momentarily) or try these two tactics:

The nice request

The conspiracy theory

@ Harry – WAS RUN?! WAS RUN?? Glad to hear they RAN the comment, bro! Sheesh.