Full Circle Associates

The Intuitive Life Business Blog captures some good basic blogging practice ethics. I am in total agreement."Mailing list discussions are not free content for your blog"

"If I encounter a cogent comment in a public venue, I believe that it's acceptable use to excerpt or quote that comment - with credit and a back link - on my own weblog.

If the comment was in a private venue, such as this mailing list, I always privately email the author and request permission to quote them on my weblog.

He goes on to say:

On some of the very best lists I'm involved with there's a written agreement that makes quite explicit the privacy of the discussion with a zero tolerance for mistakes. One list in particular, focused on Internet-based entrepreneurs, is the cornerstone of my digital work in many ways, and it's less than 75 people. I've seen more than one person kicked out of the group for violating this strict community behavioral standard and I appreciate our strict guidelines which foster a terrific sense of openness.

Then there is that lovely gray area -- which is both important, but hard to reference:

I have to admit that I also recognize that inspiration and ideas come from just about anywhere and it's unrealistic to ask permission for everything you encounter, even on private lists. What I'll do, however, is reinvent what someone's saying rather than using the dubious 'A fellow blogger' or similar."

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