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For some reason, I thought blogging was a little like ReTweeting — if you posted links back to the original post, you could recycle others’ content and help the original author extend their reach. It’s also (or can be) a lazy way of generating material but I somehow thought, with full transparency, it was an acceptable practice when not overused.

My first mistake was in missing the distinction between individually-authored blogs and those created by for-profit entities. The second was not asking the post’s original author or publisher for permission to reprint.  Said publisher in this case, EnvatoNetwork contacted me and pointed out these missteps in a very gracious way. I am grateful for the education and share it with you here, along with some of those myths.

Envato Network offers a full product line of blogs, themes, tutorials, and other resources that I am certain to revisit. Among them, to a self-employed contractor, FreelanceSwitch offers exceptional value. Please note these guys aren’t just in it for the money — they recently promoted a Freelance Camp here in Houston and I assume other events with some regularity.

My original blog post was titled Top 10 Myths About Freelancers: Shamelessly Re-Cycled. Chagrined but unbowed, and no longer recycling, I commend it to you here:  author Adrian Try, a noted open-source software proponent, offers Top 10 Myths About Freelancers, with a number of collateral links (and counter-arguments) relating to each entry.

• freelancers spend the day on non-work-related activities

• freelancers don’t have the resources of large companies

• freelancers don’t have the leverage of a large company