Who wrote the first 10 Ways to Improve SEO for example – I’ve read quite a number. Did those people perhaps absorb it from the atmosphere? Yet none of them to my memory said they learned that on another blog. Its a valid example.

I have to say I would find it very hard ever to say exactly where what I’ve heard becomes my own opinion. Mind you I was a writer before being a blogger so am well aware of how parts of things soup away in a bubbling brew and come out as something original. Or originalish.

Yes I like Joseph’s point and have made it myself to a lesser extent in the past. Quite a few articles on professional blogging sites seem to be a circuitous rehash of the same information which may have begun on Micro Persuasion or somewhere else.

Its kind of icky when you think of it? Human aggregators or programatical is probably irrelevant.

I’m for a free blogosphere where conversation and the sharing of knowledge are more important than click through revenue… on blogs at least.

Is either side of the debate right though? Mmm I probably think the truth and the path are in that grey area you mentioned.