I just received this email from my friend John, who was one of the last people to leave a comment. I had to smile as I read it, because I know you can’t help but smile when you read something like that.
I’ve only been able to find one of these, and that was by a user named “gryphon,” who posted a blog post titled, “Cite a blog mla” or something along those lines. It was a response to a blog post I wrote in response to “Why is it that whenever I see a post mentioning some web resource, you’re automatically tagged as a ‘cite a blog mla?’ user.
Well, I don’t know about automatic, but if you are a blogger, you’d have to be tagged by some other blogger, right? And John, I’m not really sure where you’re getting your information, so I don’t know why everyone would assume you’re a cite a blog mla.
If youre looking for a place to see who is actually being credited for an article, you could always just check the author page for their name. Of course, that doesn’t include the author’s actual name, so it could still be an automated process, but I suppose that does make sense.
I guess I should rephrase my “citation a blog mla” question. If I’m a blogger, I’d have to be tagged by someone who is actually a blogger – which makes sense, since they are the ones that actually write the articles, even if they are just following links from other blogs.
I guess what I would want is a citation from a blogger who is actually a blogger, and I would also want to include their actual name. The problem is that people often get tagged without even a name. So I guess I should probably just say, “Oh, I guess the author of this article is Matt Ahl. Thank you for the citation,” but that doesnt really make sense to me. I would still really like to be able to cite the blogger who wrote it.
I agree with you, but I think we can still get a lot more useful information out of the way of the actual content itself than just a link. As we’ve said before, a blog’s content is by definition subjective, and so your mileage may vary.
We are talking about content now, not a blog. You can still cite a blog, and the author of the article can tell you who it is. But that doesn’t really help you. In the same way that we can’t point to the author of one sentence, we can’t point to the author of a blog, either. Your best bet is to get the other person to speak for themselves.
So if we were to cite a blog, we would have to create an article about the blog. Then we could put that article on our blog, but we dont. We dont want to create a blog with all of our content on it. We dont want to be the one writing the blog, either. We want to do it ourselves, and we want to share the content with the other blogs we have on our website.
We want to do it because it is fun, but also because it is important. I feel like the more information you can share, the more people can benefit from it. There are so many different blogs out there and when you have to point to a specific blog to use in a particular way, it makes it harder to communicate. So by sharing other people’s content, you are helping to make it more valuable to the other people who have read it.
