EVERYONE Please note!!
BLOGS are different from Tweets. Tweets are meant to go out to the world, they are not private.
Blogs are an author's property. They BELONG to someone.
They should be considered as copyrighted material.
RFF tries to be very responsible in crediting owners and their work.
We make EVERY effort to contact the owner of the blog and ask for permission to use their story and their pictures before using them. Most blog owners are very generous with sharing. BUT we always ask first.
Sometimes there is no way to contact a blogger, in that case we credit them, and LINK to their work.
SO please, check in with me before doing anything except linking to a blog? I can tell you where we stand with contacting the authors, or if it is new to us.
We all get excited with a new find, but ask okay? Thanks!!
Oval actually found the Osaka blog ...and we have been waiting (sorta) patiently to hear from them! SO hope they don't mind us Jumping the gun!
I have some just few comments about Peach's post in the live board.
Actually, it is already given that anything posted on the Internet is (whether you like it or not) , except places that have passwords given to a few select audience (e.g. Facebook posts, unless the posts themselves where made public). Whatever posted online that is accessible to ALL persons is considered PUBLIC (whatever means to search it or to obtain it).
Twitter is also a form of blogging (in fact, Twitter is a micro-blogging website, a mini version of what bloggers do). Along with blog posts, tweets have owners too... so if blogs should be granted permission first, tweets must too, right?
Simply said, I do not get the difference between the two except their platforms and their mediums.
That blog post about the Japanese sighting is actually, like most blogs, public, because we were able to see it. Even though it is kinda a personal blog, it is still public, and we can't be sued for "stealing" info.
Its just one of the two: (1) A credit is considered enough for blogs, just like tweets. OR (2) just like blogs, tweets should be asked prior permission too.
But I am NOT saying we
should share facts from blogs without prior permission.
What Peach meant was basically this:
Do NOT share blog finds without OUR permission from them. You can share tweets though without restrictions, just give credit. ETA: We should really never try to forget to ask permission first and then give credit. A blogger might not realize his/her posts are public, and so we need to ask permission so that he can be aware of this.
Sorry for being so technical.
(I don't know where to post this post, too!
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