Posted by admin | Posted in Marketing | Posted on 25-02-2009
Tags: copyright, reblogging, reposting, web 2.0, Wordpress, wp-o-matic
Retweeting is great in Twitter because it is 140 characters, in the blog sphere it is not so. When I started blogging I thought that it was a great idea to post other peoples’ posts which was relevant to my blog. There was two major things wrong with this:
1. It is stealing – Without gaining permission of the original author the act is stealing the IP of another person.
2. It was wasting people’s time – while in some ways it meant people could come to my single blog it also meant anyone who has alerts are seeing the same story multiple times.
If you do think someone’s blog is great than blog about why it is great or otherwise. Reposting is just adding to the clutter of the web, stealing IP (even if you have permission) and just a waste of time.
So when you consider WP-o-matic or Feed WP or whatever else think about if you are really adding to the value of the internet or just causing clutter.