It’s not a copy/paste machine. There are NO MACHINES involved. We are people. We add whatever we want to our blogs. I put up videos, photos, stories, and links… If that upsets your paradigm, well then, sorry. You just have to deal with the fact that the blogosphere evolves and changes.

Those who develop mechanisms for assigning value to things that evolve and change (Technorati and Google) have to adapt to how we use the web.

It’s our web and we’ll use it how we want to.

No one is going to fear monger me into censoring myself to the point that I don’t give credit where credit is due. If I post a picture of someone on my blog I’m going to damn well link to that person’s blog. Plain and simple. It’s called attribution and it’s the ethical thing to do.

Repeating my phrasing and the “innocently” in quotation marks. You don’t believe that most of us are innocent and you are making that known.

Anyway, end of conversation. You are obviously on your own trip and (seriously) this is the first time I’ve lost my temper online and I don’t like it.

I don’t think you’ve done badly out of this, have you?

I’ve seen your site before, and I certainly welcome the “meet the neighbor” initiatives. And when those “neighbors” who really met, i.e. bloggers who discover and actually read each other link to each other, that’s perfectly fine.

However, on your site you’re still talking about re-distributing the code. Now, let’s be realistic: how many other blogs will a typical blogger discover and follow? A handful? Dozens? 100? Whatever that number is, you probably don’t believe yourself that it will be the entire 2000. So when you start-redistributing the code with 2000 links, it will be yet another linkfarm, and everything I discussed above will apply to your project, too.

Without the copy/paste link-machine, 2kbloggers would be a nice project.