Sometimes when you write what you hold as an original thought, it has been written about hundreds of times in the same sense, only to in the end go back to the actual original thought in a published article. On most of the blog posts you read you will find a “via” link in the end. Which basically points out that what you just read has been written somewhere else before this. I’m naturally going there instead in the future. In creating my RSS- feed, I find myself looking for the original sources. The original sources are often very narrow, geeky or sometimes to in depth so sometimes I end up going back to blogs that works more as filters, rather than as publications of original thoughts.
When I go through what I’ve written, it often starts with a link to a post that inspired me to write it. But I try to deliver an original thought rather than a summary of what someone else said. I try to link two original thoughts together to create a new one. I do this partially because I believe that “filter” blogs, blogs that scan blogrolls and summarise what is hot right now are very shallow and sometimes are getting credit for something else than being a filter. And partially, because it makes me question what I read and approach information as something that is not finished, I can help it along to create something new. If I’m lucky I inspire someone else that passes the ball on and in the end you have something beautiful. What we refer to as the blogosphere.
Learn from this:
- Try to write something original
- Credit the source
- Define if your a filter or a writer