Week 4 Prompt

How do issues such as authorship, copyright and open access impact your desire, ability and willingness to engage in produsage, both personally and professionally? 

After reading this prompt, I wondered is there a formal method to cite within a blog like the APA format used for papers and projects. Throughout this course I have linked several websites to my blog and referred to the articles on those links. I have also referenced several of the course reading material but not in a formal or particular format.

Has this been in error? This is what I found:

3 Blogging Rules:

http://weblogs.about.com/od/bloggingethics/tp/Top3BloggingRules.htm

APA Style Blog Guidelines:

http://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/blog-guidelines.html

I found these links helpful and was surprised that I did not consider looking into them earlier. Does anyone have any conflicting advice?

As for the work I produce, I am not yet concerned with copyright or authorship because this is my first blog and most of my entries have been my exploration not new discoveries. Additionally, my interaction with twitter and pinterest has mostly been repining or retweeting others creation (which I have not worried about copyright because it seems like the function is built into the system). I have shared several photos or ideas for weddings on my pinterest from my wedding but because I am not in the wedding business I have not been concerned about my ideas being stolen. My conclusion is that if I were using these social networking tools for business I would feel concerned with open access but for now I am happy to share my ideas as they are more hobby based.