I make every effort to make my blog as original as possible using my own thoughts and words to express who I am and to chronicle and curate the things I am interested in. With that said I do “borrow” from sources when my own words aren’t as good as the original. I do give credit where credit is due though. Occasionally I will re-blog a post from a fellow blogger if it fits the overall narrative of my blog.
I get a lot of material for my blog from Wikipedia, YouTube, Google, Websites that features quotes and saying from others, etc. There are images that help tell my story that come from various sources which are copyrights of the holders and creators of their work. My blog is a non-commercial work and I have no intention of monetizing it.
I am influenced and inspired by other bloggers and the culture and attitudes of the moment. Sometimes that influence rubs off and you end up copying someone without realizing it. However there are some who just seem to take someone else’s work and make it their own, which is wrong.
Our world is a mix of open source and copyrighted works so we have to be careful to do the right thing and credit sources as a best practice.
What is your experience with originality and blogging?
As always I encourage you to be original, be yourself, make your blog unique. Keep on blogging.
The Tony Burgess Blog 
I just wrote a post the other day about how when I have writer’s block I use other blogs as inspiration – I think if you’re writing then you’re here to inspire 🙂 I have seen people write posts about things I’ve written about and I do see some similarities, but as long as original thought is put into it I think it’s great that they enjoyed my work enough to write something of their own!
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Unintentional copying is cool. Kind of flattering if you ask me. It happens in song lyrics, poetry and the like. There is nothing new under the sun so they say.
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I only copy book blurbs and author’s info on occasion. Everything else I write is my own original work.
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I do quotes and give credit. 96% of what you see on my blog comes out of my head.
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It would feel funny to change around the book blurb or the Authors personal information. I put it in block quote and it is pretty obvious it is taken from the book. So I am calling mine 99% original 🙂 No one can chatter like me. It would be obvious. lol
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Nice ramble….
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