ronworkman:

…I think we, as any blogger worth his or her daily traffic, have the responsibility to give something back to the digital world in which we exploit. I get recognition for sifting through the dirty flea markets and broken down garage sales of the CyberWeb and sharing with you all the pretty pictures I find. You’re welcome, btw, but the fact remains that I didnt do anything but press a couple buttons. Somebody else bled out their soul and conducted a symphony with the droplets. Bloggers owe it to artists, creators, entertainers, and original websites to do the simplest good deed and help propagate their name.

I get tons of requests daily from people asking me to follow their blog or check out their site but if you’re not crediting your posts, you’re a soulless wretch, a mere consumer scooping creativity into your gaping maw and shatting out the collective mess. Rethink your business model if you do this, then re-examine your life and ask yourself if you’re really a good person. I’m looking at sites like 9gag, who actively ruin other people’s work by burning their own watermark onto it, or I dunno, most of tumblr, who are happy to reblog a post complete with source material and good references, before stripping all of that away just so they can have a blog full of context-less pictures that represent just how deep and generic a person they really are…

Ian Brooks

Because Christmas is nothing if we don’t reflect about something, I leave these words of wisdom coming from Ian Brooks through the blog of the guy who taught me how to keep a good looking tumblr!