I see some of the videos from Vs appear on other blogs when they hit the TOp15.

They never Via VS and only embed the direct YouTube Link.

I remember Neatorama did this for the longest time as well.

Sounds pretty fair.

Here are a couple of (somewhat) new videoblogs that I like quite a bit:

http://everythingisterrible.blogspot.com/
http://videohomesystem.com/

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

I sometimes feel very suspicious when I see video blogs that have new posts that are 2 or 3 videos from our top 15. Not much to do about it I guess - but use the golden rule and try to exemplify the etiquette we would like others to have.

I often put in where I found my videos, but I sometimes don't, and I don't feel bad about it. For one thing, things come in waves, and sometimes things are 4 or 5 places I look, and sometimes I see a pointer to an idea one place and get the video elsewhere (like today when I saw an article on neatorama about glasswing butterflies, and then went looking for videos with them in them--no video was at the original article).

Some "leading" video blogs:
*Boingboing (us): http://www.boingboing.net/archives.html
*Flickr Video: http://www.flickr.com/search/advanced/ (search by media type, only videos)
*StumbleVideo: http://video.stumbleupon.com/
*Ehrensenf (de): http://www.ehrensenf.de/shows
*Rocketboom (us): http://www.rocketboom.com/vlog/archives.html
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=ROCKETBOOM
*Neatorama video clips: http://www.neatorama.com/category/video-flash-clips/
*5min - Live Videopedia: http://www.5min.com/
*Daily Dish, The (Andrew Sullivan):
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/archives.html
*Fark video: http://www.fark.com/video/
*Milkandcookies: http://www.milkandcookies.com/
*I am Bored: http://www.i-am-bored.com/
*Glumbert: http://www.glumbert.com/
*Superdeluxe: http://www.superdeluxe.com/

I do if it's a blog I regularly follow, or otherwise like. If not, I follow oxdottir's method. I don't bother to link if the blog I found it on was one of many who posted it almost at the same time.

I try to always do it I think it's only fair.

And nice

And decent

And professional

And, well, just right damnit

none of us actually made or paid for any of this, so worrying about "via" etiquette seems bizarre to me.

or put it this way... if you find a vid on the sift that you like, feauring some talented guy or some amazing animation or music... do you ever go to the dude's youtube channel and thank him for providing you with free entertainment?

parasites, leeches, web 2.0 bitches

looks like i killed this thread then. sorry about that.

I usually try to put a link in, especially if more info can be found at the source.

Just a thought:
It might be a good idea to add a found on or via field on the submit page that could then link to the source alongside the posted clip.

That way people have to at least think about where they found it and could still make an active choice to leave it blank if the source is not worth mentioning in their eyes...