"It is not easy to find to whom and how to credit when one's ideas are inspired by reading weblogs of others and conversations in a weblog network. When those ideas leave the blogosphere and take shape of something that is part of paid work (publications, presentations, instruments, methods), lack of attribution could result in a bitter feelings as sharing one's ideas for a "collective good" is not the same as giving them to someone who might be competing for a publication space or consulting assignments in the "real world"."
As a publisher, and as someone personally interested in the exchange of ideas and knowledge, these sentiments are I think something to be keenly aware of. I try to attribute when and I where I can but sometimes kinda fail.
I'm wondering out loud here but is there any role for an independent publisher in the efforts to resolves these issues?
-HJ Lilia Efimova, Mathemagenic, July 10, 2008
Filed under: blogging, ideas, publishing 2.0, social media
