51 on Flickr.
Cute dogs I saw in Xi’an! More @ my flickr
on crediting
Why credit others?
To give credit where it’s due. Yes, it sounds really obvious, but I don’t think people understand until they have been in a situation where they haven’t been properly credited.
How would you feel if you had produced something (art, music, an essay, an invention) and suddenly it was “on display” to thousands and millions of people? An innate (or maybe not so innate) part of you wants to jump up and down screaming “that’s my work! I made that!” But no one turns and acknowledges you.
There have been some really nasty cases in history where credit wasn’t paid properly and in retrospect, I’d be pretty angry if I were being ripped off. Ex. Rosalind Franklin and her contribution to finding the structure of DNA, Tesla (based on my limited knowledge of him via the Oatmeal).
Reposting
where the credit is implied to belong to the reposter
Mentioning that you don’t know who the source/artist is, is better than not writing anything at all. When there’s no credit mentioned, the general public may assume that you are the original source. This is pretty much the internet equivalent of stealing or plagiarism.
And yet, there’s always iffy situations such as when someone else took a picture with your camera. Do you credit the photographer? Or not because you asked them to take the picture for you? Do they even care?
The bottom line is, credit others for their work.
although my dash has been pretty successful in making me watch whatever TV show they’re interested in, there’s a couple that I haven’t started. This is one of those “what I know about __ from my dash” except in text form because I can’t be bothered to open PS.
Vikings
ok I’m cheating a bit because I plan on watching this but
- everyone is badass
- almost three some
- athelsan’s haircut takes a turn for the worse
- rollo and floki are bad guys? possibly?
The Borgias
- only a borgias can love a borgias
- aka incest ??
Spartacus
- bloody but relatively unclothed
The Pacific, Generation Kill
- feelings
so yes, there you go. a list of TV series that I will probably never watch (except Vikings) but see on my dash a lot.
Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies, an’ tho’ a cloud’s shape nor hue nor size don’t stay the same, it’s still a cloud an’ so is a soul. Who can say where the cloud’s blowed from or who the soul’ll be ‘morrow? Only Sonmi the east an’ the west an’ the compass an’ the atlas, yay, only the atlas o’ clouds.
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| — | David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas (via katmaryd) |
