Being rebuked and corrected is never easy. It is especially hard in person when someone is looking you straight in the eye. But it is also very difficult to receive a correction, even when it happens in cyberspace.
I have rebuked by Cory Miller. You can read his post right here.
He doesn't mention me by name, because he is a class act and most likely was willing to give me the benefit of the doubt, but I have a suspicion that he is talking about me. (and even if it wasn't my blog as he talks about, it doesn't lessen the fact that I am guilty of what he wrote about).
The egregious post that he mentions is on Bible Reading plans that I posted last week. Now although I give him attribution and a link back, I simply cut and paste his post into my blog. Of course I meant no foul and didn't plan to take credit for work that I didn't do. My sincere intention was to pass on really good information to my readers, my error was that I was lazy and just slapped someone else's content up instead of creating my own.
One thing that I learned about living in light of the Gospel is that my acceptance and righteousness isn't based on my own successes or failures. It is based solely on Christ, and Him alone. This enables me to admit my failure without fear of cover up or shifting blame.
To Cory and his readers I apologize. To my readers I apologize. I will try to be more conscientious about my postings and take the time to add my own creative fingerprint to all the work that I produce. One of my initial goals of blogging was to learn to be a better writer (an idea put forth by my seminary prof. Steve Brown at RTS) and blogging was an attempt to develop that skill. Therefore I need to take the time and discipline to craft as much of my own thoughts as I blog. Thanks Cory. (in some ways I am flattered that you might have been reading my blog in the first place!)
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I have rebuked by Cory Miller. You can read his post right here.
He doesn't mention me by name, because he is a class act and most likely was willing to give me the benefit of the doubt, but I have a suspicion that he is talking about me. (and even if it wasn't my blog as he talks about, it doesn't lessen the fact that I am guilty of what he wrote about).
The egregious post that he mentions is on Bible Reading plans that I posted last week. Now although I give him attribution and a link back, I simply cut and paste his post into my blog. Of course I meant no foul and didn't plan to take credit for work that I didn't do. My sincere intention was to pass on really good information to my readers, my error was that I was lazy and just slapped someone else's content up instead of creating my own.
One thing that I learned about living in light of the Gospel is that my acceptance and righteousness isn't based on my own successes or failures. It is based solely on Christ, and Him alone. This enables me to admit my failure without fear of cover up or shifting blame.
To Cory and his readers I apologize. To my readers I apologize. I will try to be more conscientious about my postings and take the time to add my own creative fingerprint to all the work that I produce. One of my initial goals of blogging was to learn to be a better writer (an idea put forth by my seminary prof. Steve Brown at RTS) and blogging was an attempt to develop that skill. Therefore I need to take the time and discipline to craft as much of my own thoughts as I blog. Thanks Cory. (in some ways I am flattered that you might have been reading my blog in the first place!)
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2 comments:
I know waht you mean. Early in my blogging career, I got called out for something similar.
I have since taken this rule of thumb. I treat all my posts like a college essay where I can use others ideas, but must only use quotes (surrounded by orginal material) that are duly attributed to the orginal author.
I wouldn't copy a book, but I can quote a particular line or parargraph without infringment. So to with blogs. In most cases this satisfies the requirements for preventing creative copyright infringement.
William, you are the class act for your graciousness ... no apology needed. One of the points I wanted to make was that as believers if we do this on the blogosphere to "non-believers" two things will happen ... (a) they won't be nice about it and (b) it could damage our witness.
I look forward to reading your blog in the future! Blessings to you!
Otter, good point on treating posts like college essays.
--Cory
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