Blog etiquette

I re-post a lot of other people’s work. I justify it as contributing to the distribution of what I believe are quality peices of content. It is, in truth, stealing. Recently I posted/stole Faris Yakob’s excellent little PDF on mobile futures on my work blog. Faris, kindly, left a small comment of gratitude. I, in turn, want to do likewise, something along the lines of; ‘Hi Faris, I am a huge fan of your blog and will continue to leech your content at will’.

But where do I do this?

Doing so on the original post on Faris’ blog would make no sense, being as it would, completely out of context. Similarly, I would be enormously surprised if Faris reads my work blog, so leaving any note of appreciation there would, I am almost certain, fail to be registered.

So I’m stuck. It is a far too minor issue to warrant a direct message, or general blog comment? Yet I feel, for the sake of my moral compass and genuine goodwill, that I must make a small gesture of appreciation.

Any ideas?

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