Joseph Harris mentions the idea of forwarding in his book, "Rewriting: How to Do Things With Texts". What this means is an author putting thier own spin on another's work. Anything can be forwarded, from the traditional texts that have been rewritten for various purposes, such as plays or for new understanding, to the modern, and fairly annoying, forwarded email.
Both of the blogs I am following constantly use forwarding as a way to spread thier news. My personal choice of blog, The Ville Voice, uses forwarding to convey news updates. Most of the time, when on of The Ville Voice contributers links a story they will add their own personal touch. Each day this blog opens with multiple headlines from the latest news updates, adding, a normally witty line, to make the story appealing. For example, on Wednesday, the title was "Wednesday Morning of Wasteful Spending and Such" one of the headlines, and custom leads, was, "Don’t let your kids trick-or-treat in Shively. Cause some dude may snatch them and pull them inside his house. You never know." This was in reference to the Courier Journal blog about how to keep safe when trick or treating on Halloween.
Almost all blogs use stories that have come from other references in order to insure the news will be spread to as many people as possible. If we were not allowed to use this idea of forwarding we would all have to be first hand witnesses to events that occur all across the globe everyday. It would also be much more difficult to develop our own ideas based on previous text and convey them through papers and such.
