One of my motivations for starting AmBlogger is to hopefully contribute original thoughts to the Blogging community. As such, it is not very often that I use the daily stuff I read to generate new Blog ideas. I mean, I try my hardest not to. I wanted to sound in about blogging with passion, referring to Paul Chaney’s “The Joy Of Blogging“, but Darren has already done it.

I held off for more original ideas but none have come to me in the last few days. But if you enjoy my writing, please stay tuned. I’m not creative like Chartreuse but damn it if I got something to say one day, you’ll miss it if you don’t stay tuned!

Myself, I’m like the many bloggers that read a lot of other blogs and draw their inspirations from those. But too often I see the “echo chamber” in progress and though I try my earnest not to be a part of that problem, I’m not sure I’m part of the solution yet. I have an example that I would like to bring to dicussion in the near future about not being part of the “echo chamber”. Till then, I leave you with a quote I absolutely loved from a ThreadWatch discussion.

many bloggers do what a spam bot does, but manually, and then give quotes like:

“the ends wouldn’t justify the means in my books. They are using the hard work of others to launch their own business off.”

Its really nothing but a bunch of self-referential hypocritical bullshit.

I don’t think there is necessarily anything wrong with drawing inspiration from the writings of others. However, whether you’re remixing or you’re copying, it is really a thin line that still results in the same thing - a derivation of a product that was not your original thought. We keep saying content is king, but what we fail to say is that the content doesn’t have to be yours, it can be your version of some other people’s thoughts. Let’s all think about it!