There seems to be a lot of what I call piggy back blogging going on. That is what I call a blog written on the back of another one; you know, when you read someone else's blog and get inspired to take the subject or content and write a further blog on it in your own site.

For example, I read a blog by janeagain which used a word which inspired me to write a post in my gratitude blog.

I acknowledged janeagain for the inspiration in my blog and included a link that would take any visitors to her site.

That to me seemed like a respectful thing to do as it credited her with the original inspiration which I could one step further.

In the academic world in which I work it is usual to acknowledge sources and would be called plagiarism or "cheating" if we didn't.

So what do others think? Should people own up that they took their inspiration from another blogger and cite that blogger in their post?

Is that a mark of respectful bloggers?

I await your comments with interest, thank you.