Blogging or Copying?

I am a strong RSS eater. I have more than 60 feeds that comes in daily, giving me around 300 news every morning (and as many during the rest of the day I think). I follow blogs in English (mainly) and few others in Italian. I have decided to drop some blogs, though, because lately I have realised that they are not blogs, they are copycat.

Copy is easy in the Digital WorldYes, I admit that sometimes I get news that I feel important and write them on my blog. “Sometimes” however, does not mean that I do it every day, for every post I write, and I always cite the source.

The blogs that I have decided to remove from my feeds copy every single news, without telling where they are copying from. They seems original post indeed, but they are copy (complete with the same images) from other blog, whose names are never written.

I think that redistributing information, telling your reader where they come from, is good. I can report you a special news, linking to the original blog, so I help them growing their visitors. Isn’t it lovely? Now I have decided to remove the copycats, just because they post the same news one day later, without writing the source. It is a fact of ideology!

Am I wrong?