@ Ken ~ He was sneaky about it. He did not ask. He linked to me as an afterthought. He published it exactly as I wrote it down to the title, image, and words. Yes, I want my work out there. I welcome the opportunity to have it showcased with on many of the worthy blogs with a portion only and a link back to me in order to drive traffic back to me because it is after all all about me. Does that make sense? This “blogger” has a plethora of both credited and uncredited work on his blog with full text articles. That just pisses me off to no end.

I do so enjoy sparking conversations, so here’s a question, mostly for arguments sake:

You see, I come from an art background and I greatly studied the transitions of great art movements. In so doing, I often witnessed creativity coming along when an artist fused varied styles, and works, together (and if not great then certainly challenging to the social norm).

I understand you have license to your work, but is the object of posting a blog not to share your work? I am just wondering in that I may find snipits of work from time to time that I pull in, but usually start the article with credit back to whence I came.

Did he link to your site?

I know that lower-traffic bloggers sometimes will use links of higher-traffic blogs to gain readers, and better indexing in the search engines…. did you talk to him about it?

T.

@ Citizen Jane ~ I’m so glad I found you through that fucking Plurk.

@ Lisa ~ Thanks, sweetie. That means a lot coming from a great blogger such as yourself. I sent you the ping code in one of your plurks.

@ poppingbubbles ~ I decided that I was not going to cross the same line he did.

@ Dingo ~ Precisely.

@ Cara ~ I shall not disappoint.

@ NotAMeanGirl ~ Thank you.

@ Yoonamaniac ~ Probably so. When I find them, I will rip cut their hands off.

@ Greytfriend ~ I hope it makes people stop and realize that “No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.” (Dead Poets Society). As far as the Digg submission, go ahead with a link. I am the editor of this blog. Weirdos will be smited.

I’d like to submit this to digg, if you would also like. I think it could be a good forum to get others thinking about right and wrong way to do this stuff. Knowing that if we do, there may well be a lot of general idiots commenting, too. Let me know what you think.