What do you think?

Something happened between me and another blogger this morning. One that is on my blogroll.

It's Florida Cracker aka Donnah. As she is another Florida Blogger I visit her site regularly. Sometimes leaving comments on her posts, more often seeing a story she blogged on and I find it interesting too. Since last July I've linked to Donnah's blog posts on 35 occasions.(I did a search of our archives)

We've also exchanged a half dozen emails in about that period of time.

This morning I visited Florida Cracker. I saw this post. Finding it interesting, I gave the subject of the story today's Knucklehead award. If you look closely at Donnah's post, she has a series of links to cached pages and another blog. I put those links in my post. Then as is my practice I added a Hat tip to Florida Cracker. That's all I said. Then I trackbacked my post to Florida Cracker and other blogs.

I was surprised when a little over an hour later, this comment was added to the same post. It was Donnah.

Any other link you want to rip from my post? I think you missed one.

From the tone I reckoned something was wrong. I checked the Florida Cracker website. My trackback which I had seen earlier had gone through was now missing.

I wrote Donnah asking what happened and what was wrong. Donnah replied back, but has denied me permission to print the letter.

The basic gist of Donnah's letter was I had ripped off fher post. She felt my hat tip was inadequate for the work she did in preparing those links she had provided That I should have given her more credit.

In addition to deleting my trackback, Donnah deleted me from her blogroll. She did that before I even responded to her comment.

So I want to hear from some fellow bloggers. Did I do something wrong? Do you feel I owe Donnah an apology or do you think Donnah over reacted? I emailed Donnah a link to this post, also hoping to elicit her response.

Open Post- TMH's Bacon Bits, Basil's Blog, Third World County, Jo's Cafe, Bright & Early, Cao's Blog, Outside the Beltway, Liberal Wrong Wing, Cigar Intelligence Agency, Adam's Blog, Samantha Burns, Right Wing Nation,

Cross posted to Bullwinkle Blog