Blogging is a lot like recycling. Lets say, I notice this great article in the New York Times. I immediately write a post about it. Somebody visits my blog a few days later, and shortly after, I notice they comment on the same article in their own blog. Sometimes I get credit for noticing first, and I even get comments on my comments. I do the same thing. When I suffer from writer’s block, I visit my favorite blogs, and without fail, always find some interesting post to comment on. Of course, this poses the question of how much original content there actually is in the blogosphere. Even links are a form of recycling.
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I suppose you could look at blogging as part of a conversation. How many times do you quote something you’ve seen / heard / read in conversation?
Good point. One thing I did no expand on, simply because I think it is in such bad taste, is the gross ‘recycling’ of content, and ideas that goes on in some cases. It is one thing to react to, and build upon each others’ ideas. But sometimes, I have noticed it gets awfully close to plagiarism. That’s when I get angry. . . And honored that someone would find my comments so interesting that they want to make them their own.
Makes me wonder, if large numbers of people start reading the same things online, if a “Collective Conscious” (as opposed to Collective Unconscious) were to begin to form, and whether it would be a Good Thing or a Bad Thing–
I wrote something about it in my blog