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Originally Posted by Tome Keeper
I think that as long as you cite the source then legally your fine. However, common decency is to ask permission from the blogger and at the same time clarify how they wish to be cited.
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This is what I was thinking of doing; since bloggers are in the public arena, I'm sure that legally there would be no problem with quoting a blog as long as it was sourced properly, and the quotation or paraphrase (which is probably what it would mostly be) adhered to the fair practices conventions. I was wondering if there were restrictions, and if it would be polite in this non-academic context to ask a blogger if he or she minded being quoted. Legally it wouldn't matter, but I was more concerned with protocol. I'm not even sure I'm going to do this, but I wondered if there were accepted practices and how people who blog would feel about being quoted.
If I were a blogger (and I'm not), I would like to see my work quoted by other people. It would bring attention to my blog, and that's what most of the blogging community seems to want.
The easiest solution would be to ask the blogger though, and if the blogger objected or wanted to be paid, to just leave that blogger out. It's not as though there's a drought in the blog landscape.