Where Do You Blog?

My Myspace blog is a little different than this one, and my blogger one pretty closely follows my myspace blog. 

This is the first I've heard of fine for duplicate blogs.  Can anyone explain further???  I'm afraid if I just link, I'm going to lose a bunch of my readers.

Chris - Thanks!  I will check it out!

Ricardo - Hopefully now that I'm back in the office I can sit down and look at them! 

Maureen - I'm not so sure that my Blogger blog is worth it, then, because I only have so much time in the day.... and too many blogs to keep up on.  Perhaps I'll have to narrow it down a little.  Thanks for the input!

Connie - I haven't tried Typepad... do you like it?

I just Googled "duplicate content", and I find that this applies the most to my situation -

Syndicate carefully: If you syndicate your content on other sites, make sure they include a link back to the original article on each syndicated article. Even with that, note that we'll always show the (unblocked) version we think is most appropriate for users in each given search, which may or may not be the version you'd prefer.

I'm not seeing my Blogger blog when I do most of my google searches, which is fine with me, but I think I will start back-linking my blogs that I paste elsewhere.  :)

It also doesn't sound like the penalize a lot, and not so much for blogs.  This is what Google's article says 

What is duplicate content?
Duplicate content generally refers to substantive blocks of content within or across domains that either completely match other content or are appreciably similar. Most of the time when we see this, it's unintentional or at least not malicious in origin: forums that generate both regular and stripped-down mobile-targeted pages, store items shown (and -- worse yet -- linked) via multiple distinct URLs, and so on. In some cases, content is duplicated across domains in an attempt to manipulate search engine rankings or garner more traffic via popular or long-tail queries.

What isn't duplicate content?
Though we do offer a handy translation utility, our algorithms won't view the same article written in English and Spanish as duplicate content. Similarly, you shouldn't worry about occasional snippets (quotes and otherwise) being flagged as duplicate content.

Why does Google care about duplicate content?
Our users typically want to see a diverse cross-section of unique content when they do searches. In contrast, they're understandably annoyed when they see substantially the same content within a set of search results. Also, webmasters become sad when we show a complex URL (example.com/contentredir?value=shorty-george⟨=en) instead of the pretty URL they prefer (example.com/en/shorty-george.htm).

What does Google do about it?
During our crawling and when serving search results, we try hard to index and show pages with distinct information. This filtering means, for instance, that if your site has articles in "regular" and "printer" versions and neither set is blocked in robots.txt or via a noindex meta tag, we'll choose one version to list. In the rare cases in which we perceive that duplicate content may be shown with intent to manipulate our rankings and deceive our users, we'll also make appropriate adjustments in the indexing and ranking of the sites involved. However, we prefer to focus on filtering rather than ranking adjustments ... so in the vast majority of cases, the worst thing that'll befall webmasters is to see the "less desired" version of a page shown in our index.
 

I thought I'd share my newfound information with you!