Reblogging etiquette

blakeley:

Is it bad form to reblog someone’s post without giving credit?

I don’t know, is it? Whoever posted this first?

I think so, yes. I mean, yes, “technically,” anyone could find these things that are so freely and frequently “blogged” and “reblogged” on Tumblr. This is the Internet, though, so, duh, we can find it anywhere, sans citations.

But site meters and site stats are a nice indication of who has picked up what and from you.

So, a nice via would be nice? Maybe? If you did find it from somewhere?

I look at it like I look at all of those papers I wrote in undergrad, when I worked so diligently to properly cite the words and the images and the ideas of my source(s). Granted, an emo photograph of Grace Kelly found on the Internet is not the same as a paragraph from Derrida regarding writing and difference, but, a citation would still be nice.

Also, yet another “reblog”.