Todd (Oilman) made a solid post today on original thought.  If you don’t know him, he’s a really nice, smart fellow who calls things as he sees them. 

I’ve often remarked how too many postings in various blogs are un-original, or derivative, (forget the ones that are just outright plagiarized).  Too often they’re people just re-stating / re-phrasing what someone else already had to say, without actually contributing additional information, or any meaningful insight.

Too many blogs are ”me too” in nature.  No, I’m not referring to all the splogs out there.  Marc Cuban, who has been raging on about that issue for quite a while in articles like
“attack of the splogs,” does a great job of that.

Todd’s post today was excellent and right on the mark - witty and tongue in cheek. (on original content, not splogs)

My mother taught me “if you have nothing good to say, say nothing at all.”  Man, I’ve bit my tongue a lot over the years. I look at a lot of blogs, and think “If you have nothing to contribute, why are you posting?”  Looks like Todd’s been thinking the same thing; and came up with an original and intelligent way to say it.

Thinking up original posts is tough work.