Bad netiquette! I've had people copy and paste some of my blog posts to their own sites and not credit or link it back to me. I can understand it happening in random blogs on the net... but the Guardian? Shame!

Apollinaire responds: Oh, she linked it back--laxly. You know, to the general site, not the discussion. The problem was she was snooty about it. If you're going to borrow other people's ideas, you're really in no position to dis them, I think.

Apollinaire...relax! First of all I didn't discern any snootiness in Mackrell's tone. If anything she is a champion of blogging - the only reviewer I know from a mainstream newspaper who does. And she does link to the discussion in the sentence "has inspired much wishful thinking about what an equivalent mass-market celebrity might do for dance." The link to the main site is from "Arts Journal" - a common practice in link etiquette.
I don't condone swiping material from other people's blogs (and I hate snootiness), but aren't you being just a bit oversensitive about this?

Apollinaire responds: Well, I understand standards of politeness in the blogosphere are very low, so, according to them, yep, I'm oversensitive. But would you borrow someone's scarf, say, with, "Hey, can I borrow your ratty scarf?" Replace "ratty" with "chatter," and you've got Mackrell. Not a big deal, but annoying.

Plus, having a blog isn't the same as championing blogging. I don't see much championing going on there (or here, for that matter).