tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11326364.post5736000742979235207..comments2024-03-12T05:05:15.167-04:00Comments on <center>CasesBlog - Medical and Health Blog</center>: Discussion: "Why are people copying tweets without mentioning the source?"Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11326364.post-56049596758066929732009-10-03T22:05:35.317-04:002009-10-03T22:05:35.317-04:00Thank you for the great post! It is an important t...Thank you for the great post! It is an important topic and something everyone should consider.<br /><br />I must admit I have posted tweets without crediting the original poster, but it was not intentional. When you hit "Share" button in Google Reader it only shares the title and a link back to the original post or your FriendFeed depending on how you have it set up. In order to include the appriopriate mention you must know the twitter name for the post, and you must remember to add the note into the shared link.<br /><br />This is easy for people you constantly talk to on twitter or who have an easy/similar twitter name to their blog. If it is an odd twitter name, a name that is different from their blog, or someone you do not often converse with on twitter then it is more difficult to add in the twitter name.<br /><br />Plus, you have to remember to add this information. I am often guilty of quickly hitting the share button without thinking. I should really add the mention, but I'm flying through these items in the reader just trying to keep up and just don't take the time to add the additional note.<br /><br />Either people will have to change how they use the 'share' feature in programs like Google Reader, or there will have to be a change to Google Reader.<br /><br />What do you think?<br /><br />Alisha<br />Twitter: Alisha764Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11326364.post-80508307395955526602009-10-03T14:22:20.566-04:002009-10-03T14:22:20.566-04:00I'm glad I did it right! :)I'm glad I did it right! :)Ed Bennetthttp://twitter.com/edbennettnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11326364.post-46382594927189299662009-10-03T14:08:57.586-04:002009-10-03T14:08:57.586-04:00Thank you for your comment, Jo.
Citing is essenti...Thank you for your comment, Jo.<br /><br />Citing is essential (and required) when authorship is involved.<br /><br />Alternatively, just imagine a medical journal article where the authors cite the physical libraries where they found their references along with the list of the references themselves... :) <br /><br />All my blog posts link to references.Clinical Cases and Images - Bloghttp://casesblog.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11326364.post-84810989563269127792009-10-03T13:50:19.798-04:002009-10-03T13:50:19.798-04:00You make some good points here - there is only a l...You make some good points here - there is only a limited space to tweet in, so when I am pressed for space I will tend to include the @s of people I actually know, (in this case it would be @laikas not @hrouda) and miss out the others. <br /><br />However if it's possible (and I must be immodest here and say that I'm quite smug about my skill in pruning tweets!) I will amend the tweet to get as many of the names in as possible. That's because I think this is useful background 'who follows whom' metadata that others may like. <br /><br />Also I do enjoy finding an @me in my mentions from someone I've never heard of as it's a little like watching the 'six degrees of separation' concept unfold, but that might just be me.<br /><br />Of course one could always put the link of the original tweet in and comment on that although the reader would have to click twice - but they'd lose no context... eg<br /><br />"Lots and lots of words filling up this Tweet but see this interesting thing about Google Wave http://is.gd/3UES7" ;-)<br /><br />Anyway, don't we scientists love citing things anyway? :DJohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17150960025351599805noreply@blogger.com