The bad thing about the internet is it's so public.  The good thing about the internet is it's so public.  So where does one go with that?  The ultimate compliment among bloggers is to be quoted and a link placed on another person's blog.  This does not, however, include cutting and pasting the entire post to your own blog and claiming it as your own!  That is called copyright infringement and it's a very serious issue on the internet.

Late last week, one of the entries on my blog was copied complete with my hand created Paint illustration of a spilled milk bottle.  No credit was given to me for authoring the article.  Nor was any attempt made to camouflage the theft.  The copy cat created her blog the day after I posted the entry.  Three days after creating her blog on which Copy Cat posted my entry, she had published somehing not hers!  The kindergartener in me started yelling,  "Copy cat!  Copy cat!" 

The copied entry has been deleted today.  It makes me question whether I, as a consumer,  would want an agent that plagiarizes others's blog content without attribution.  My totally biased opinion is that if someone is unethical enough to steal your content from a web publication, that same person is probably not going to be ethical in their business dealings on your behalf. 

(c) Bonnie Erickson 2006