Certainly not.
Why not just post the full content here? In what way does the blog
post cease to be your "intellectual property" if posted here in full?
If you read my latest comment, then you know that - at times - I allow an entire blog to be posted elsewhere. If permission is asked up front and if I decide to grant it. AFP Georgia has, in the past, posted my blog excerpts and linked back to my site. So, when they asked permission up front to post an entire blog, I granted it. No problem.
I don’t just slap some words into a word processor and upload them. It takes time to research, write, edit, re-write, re-edit and post a blog. I do it because I think what I have to say might be important or at least entertaining or best of all encourage people to think for themselves.
My measure of my success is the number of pageviews I get on my blog site. It’s the only way I have of knowing whether or not I am reaching people. The changes in those number of pageviews is important feedback to me. For that reason I like to link back.
This same blog (interestingly enough) is posted in excerpt form on another blog where it is linked back, not to my site, but . . . to Free Republic. I didn’t even bother to contact the blog owner, because I’m sure they meant no harm and thanks to me, FR may get another six or eight hits. Yeah, I know, really big numbers.
I’m really not trying to be an ass, but I strongly believe in property rights, even intellectual property and even for bloggers like me that put some time and energy into writing to the best of their abilities.
Thank you, by the way, for the civil response.